Richard Tabler called officials to brag about killing four people in Killeen in 2004. He was convicted for two of the deaths.

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

Christopher Stockton attacked the toddler after staying up late playing Xbox games, inflicting head injuries similar to those ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using ...