More than three decades after killing his wife and two young children, former Florida airman Edward J. Zakrzewski II is ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer ...

The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Justice Thomas has said the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Due Process clause created a "tool for obstruction." ...

A serial killer has been executed in Japan, sparking debate over Japan's death penalty. The 'twitter killer' who murdered 9 ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater tots ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...