A man convicted of killing an Indiana police officer during a foot chase 24 years ago will be executed next month, the state ...

The brother of Xavier Davis - on trial for capital murder and facing the death penalty - was captured Tuesday and hauled to ...

Two large anonymous donations have boosted the legal defense fund for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as his case moves toward a potential ...

Whatever arguments are used, the journey toward worldwide rejection of capital punishment will not be concluded quickly. But it will come.

Ian Stanley Wagner, 26, was arrested on Monday after he arrived at the facility in Minnetonka - just four months after Mangione, 26, allegedly gunned down the health insurance giant's CEO.

The row began when Higgins shaved off Mr Eaton’s eyebrow while he slept, Chester Crown Court heard, in what the judge described as a “childish prank”. The following day, on September 28 last year, a ...

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi has condemned the dire state of human rights in Iran, accusing the regime of violent repression and its severe crackdown on ...

As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners, a bill in the legislature aims to cut back on the time people convicted of crimes can spend trying to reduce or overturn their sentences, and it ...

A deadly Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday killed at least 35 people, one of the deadliest attacks of the war.