Kenneth Lee Simpson is set to stand trial in January for the murder of Hermann police Det. Sgt. Mason Griffith.

Congo’s public prosecutor has asked for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia ...

President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

(Reuters) -Congo's military auditor general formally told a military court on Friday that he is seeking the death penalty for ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last ...

The scheduled execution comes amid an elevated number of executions in Florida and nationwide in 2025, and it highlights ...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Bandidos members David Vargas and Roy Gomez, accused of killing ...

"We don't condone what these criminals [do] and what my brother did, and I don't condone the State of Utah doing the same ...

As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open ...

President Biden’s Justice Department has ordered a moratorium on carrying out federal death sentences after a surge in executions under the Trump administration. By Hailey Fuchs The routine ...

“Death penalty proponents have always said that the system is set up in a way to protect against government excess,” he told me, but there had never been an administration like Mr. Trump’s.

Gregg v. Georgia 428 U.S. 153 (1976) — [The] Court upheld Georgia’s newly passed death penalty and said that the death penalty was not always cruel and unusual punishment. Tison v.