Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed the State of Utah will be pursuing the death penalty for the assassin of Charlie Kirk at the press conference on September 11. With this announcement, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State law permits the death penalty only in aggravated murder cases and mandates that prosecutors file a formal notice before the ...

Florida executed 74-year-old Dennis Sochor, making him the oldest inmate ever put to death in the state's history ...

Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is ready to activate the modern iteration of “Old Sparky” as ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

Gov. Mike DeWine supported Ohio's death penalty as a legislator and attorney general. Now he wants the practice to end.

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

It’s unlikely Gov. Bill Lee will call a death penalty moratorium before Tennessee’s next execution. Calls for a temporary ...

THAT’S AHEAD IN A FEW MINUTES RIGHT HERE. WELL BREAKING NEWS AT FIVE. A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE CASE OF A NORTH KANSAS CITY OFFICER, A JUDGE HANDS DOWN A SEVERE PUNISHMENT TO HIS KILLER. A JURY FOUND ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

Every execution in Indiana since 1996, including those most recently of Joseph Corcoran and Benjamin Ritchie, has been carefully designed to make the viewer feel good about themselves. They might even ...