INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.

Kevin Hines, a contractor maintaining postal machines, was killed during his first shift at a Missouri City USPS facility.

Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled house bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Amid state plans to execute convicted killer Ralph Menzies, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said, "There are probably circumstances" ...

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A team of defense attorneys on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to restrict Washington County District Attorney Jason ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

When John Paul II became pope a decade later, he pushed the church further away from its historic embrace of the death penalty, calling it “cruel and unnecessary.” ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Bill would make murder while creating a “great risk of death” to other people eligible for capital punishment.

Speculation around Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s political future continues to grow with recent high-profile features.