An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.

Attorneys for Demetrius Terrence Frazier, facing execution for a 1991 rape and murder, say his challenge to the state’s use ...

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, Brenda Andrew, was granted a new hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...