The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

The U.S. may seek the death penalty for Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero after his expulsion from Mexico. Accused of various drug charges, including a notorious 1985 murder, Caro Quintero has ...

Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing.

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...

Today capital punishment has been abolished over much ... Church in the U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the ...

According to Jewish tradition, the current Hebrew month of Adar is meant to be joyful. Ancient rabbinic commentators demand: ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

A supporter of the death penalty early in his career, Scranton Joe’s position on the issue migrated so that by 2020, he was campaigning on a pledge to end capital punishment in the federal ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing ...

Capital punishment will be sought only in “exceedingly rare cases” after detailed review and consultation with crime victims.