Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip should a jury convict him, the 8 News Now ...

The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...

In a historic move, Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, following a decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Once sentenced to death himself, Mnangagwa's decision marks a significant shift in ...

A man accused of murdering two people in a Northeast Nebraska town could still get the death penalty after the latest ruling ...

The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...