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

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it ...

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

DA’s office no longer seeking death penalty against man accused of murdering local Uber driver ...

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

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

South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled Marion Bowman Jr.’s Jan. 31 execution, amidst legal challenges and a pause for ...

The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...

House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...