Kolkata: In a big development in the Abhaya rape and murder case, the CBI has sought the death penalty for the prime accused, Sanjoy Roy. The move comes as the investigation into the brutal rape and ...

On the eve of the next round of the state's effort to get a Harris County District Court judge taken off a death penalty case, the exchange of criticism is ratcheting up. In motions and responses ...

"Something is rotten in Denmark," the state wrote in a Dec. 20 motion. The judge is accused of having improper communication ...

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty ...

A death row inmate from Branchville is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31, according to an order issued Friday by the South ...

After Carter died on December 29, aged 100, President Joe Biden declared January 9 as a day of national day remembrance ...

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on ...

A federal trial date is set for the man accused of killing a woman and kidnapping her daughters in the deadly Amber Alert ...

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.