State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, who once ran Silk Road, which facilitated the sale of over $200 million in ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

A young man (Dylan Flashner) embraces the murderous urges that landed his father (Dermot Mulroney) on death row.

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

Air ambulance flight crashed near Roosevelt Mall about 30 seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, potentially killing six ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...

Chief District Judge Emily C. Marks rejected Demetrius Frazier’s request for a preliminary injunction to either stop his ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County ...