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 ...

The leading human rights organization, founded more than 60 years ago, has shared six reasons why capital punishment should ...

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 ...