Over the next four days, four inmates in four different states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not ...

Justices will consider the case that revolves around the role of multiple IQ scores in determining an Alabama murderer’s ...

The 2007 case Panetti v. Quarterman raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, requiring a “rational understanding” of ...

Nashua native Kelly Ayotte has always been tough on crime. When she took the state’s corner office in January, I knew Pamela ...

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months.

The decision marks the first time in more than 15 years that a San Mateo County district attorney will seek to execute an ...

A leading Jewish anti-death penalty group, L'chaim, is calling on federal prosecutors to reject capital punishment for Elias ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

Lil Durk will not face capital punishment in his federal murder-for-hire case after the U.S. Attorney General declined to ...

Rep. Paul Gosar has reintroduced legislation seeking the death penalty for fentanyl dealers whose drugs result in death.