The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

U.S. prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael ...

The 31-year-old suspect in the Jewish Capital Museum shooting was indicted on hate-crime and first-degree murder charges by a ...

Federal prosecutors secured an indictment Wednesday detailing nearly 10 charges connected with the killings of Israeli ...

Shawn Harris is charged in Wyandotte County with capital murder in the fatal shooting of Deputy Elijah Ming last month.

Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree announced that he will seek the death penalty in the case of Elijah Ming, the ...

United Airlines grounds entire mainline fleet over widespread technology system error An Army sergeant is in custody after 5 ...

Maria DeLiberato - who has been working with death row inmates for nearly 20 years - revealed why she is against the death penalty ...

In the newly unsealed court documents, a Grand Jury ruled there were special findings that would allow for the death penalty ...

NEW ORLEANS — The man accused of killing a Loranger mother and her daughter will not face the death penalty. Daniel Callihan ...

Elias Rodriguez indicted for the murders of Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, facing charges ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...