Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is "unavoidable," according ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, has commuted the sentence of a death row inmate to life in ...

For Marshall, restraint is weakness. His rage over Ivey’s decision reveals a man who sees capital punishment not as a last ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

New laws in Florida mandate stiffer criminal penalties for immigrants in the U.S. illegally than for everyone else ...

The death penalty has long been a controversial and divisive issue, with passionate advocates on both sides of the debate.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...