A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

Stephan Sterns, the man accused of murdering 13-year-old Madeline Soto, has filed a motion seeking to have the death penalty ...

A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on ...

The Supreme Court of California met in Sacramento on Wednesday to hear oral arguments in the case of an arsonist sentenced to death.