El Paso District Attorney James Montoya will not seek the death penalty against the Walmart mass shooter. The decision will ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

The removal of the death penalty as an option could lead to a quick guilty plea and life sentence, as happened with federal ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of ...

Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

What crimes qualify for the death penalty in Texas? Who decides whether to pursue the death penalty? Here's everything to ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's ...