Hope could very well be the defining force behind the drive to abolish capital punishment: hope for redemption, hope for ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

A federal trial date is set for the man accused of killing a woman and kidnapping her daughters in the deadly Amber Alert ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip should a jury convict him, the 8 News Now ...

A man who spent decades on death row before being granted a new trial returned to court in Hamilton County Wednesday.

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

The Arizona Supreme Court has set a schedule for the state to request a warrant of execution after a two-year death penalty ...

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life ...

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on ...

Mangione visited the gun range after taking a solo trip across Asia last year, according to two German tourists he met.

Top Republicans in Congress are introducing a new bill to stop the White House from offering plea deals to suspected 9/11 ...

Justice Department lawyers are defending the defense secretary’s decision to back out of the agreement that avoided a death ...