What do a former U.S. vice president, an environmental activist, and an exonerated former death row inmate have in common?

Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking ...

After a child sex trafficking ring was uncovered, lawmakers are now pushing for the death penalty for the abusers.

Some advocates want a categorical exclusion from the death penalty for veterans with combat-related mental injuries ...

In an Effingham County courtroom, a motion hearing was held Monday in the case of a father accused of abusing and murdering his two children before burying them in a backyard in Guyton. The hearing ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the accused co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, is expected to plead guilty ...

Right now, 121 people are still sitting on death row, but because of that moratorium, these prisoners won't face execution ...

The presidency on Monday evening announced that President John Dramani Mahama has granted amnesty to 998 prisoners across Ghana's correctional facilities.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is accused of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under a Beijing-backed law critics say has been used to crack down ...