Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

Of the 18 people sentenced by judges, 11 — or 61% — were Black. Forty-one percent of all the defendants sent to death row in the state were Black, according to data from the Death Penalty Information ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

The accomplice who paid a teenage hitman to kill a former cop's wife in 1994 has died on death row more than three decades ...

Joseph Prystash, the Houston-area hitman, was hired by a former Missouri City law enforcement officer to kill his wife during ...

Supporters of the sweeping tax and spending legislation that Congress has sent to President Donald Trump say the changes to ...

Wayne Osmond, 73. A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known ...

Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...