Florida authorities have scheduled David Pittman, 63, to be executed on September 17, in a case that dates to May 1990 when ...

Simms explained, "If you kill a law enforcement officer, a police officer, you can face the death penalty in Utah. If it's a ...

He previously penned a letter to the Arkansas State Supreme Court in 2020 saying he'd accept any means of execution, ...

Kayle Bates, who's from West Palm Beach, is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 19 for the murder of Janet Renee White.

The Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing ...

Teresa Youngblut is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of David Maland during a traffic stop in northern Vermont.

Alabama leaders met this week to discuss a new law that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty in some child abuse ...

The death penalty may be enacted by state legislatures, but county prosecutors impose it. Prosecutorial discretion is an unseen but elementary force that guides the criminal-justice system.

There are dozens of traffickers on death row in the country, including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother.

Kayle Bates put to death by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Tuesday, as executions are on the rise in the ...