Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman has reinstated the death penalty for severe cases, reversing a ban imposed by ...

Finally, Eric Huston, the perpetrator of the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting in Olivehurst, California, was sentenced to ...

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (OSV News) -- The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote ...

An inmate who was transferred to Oklahoma last month to face the death penalty now has an execution date. George John Hanson, ...

In recent years, use of the death penalty by states has gradually declined in the U.S. Now, there's a new push in Ohio to ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S. Attorney offices, who prosecute the cases.

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson is facing execution June 12 even as he fights in court to be returned to federal prison to serve a life sentence. The Oklahoma Court of C ...