Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...

A metro attorney says pressure may have been behind Alysia Adams decision to turn down a plea deal Wednesday tied to a ...

Knezevich, 36, a Fort Lauderdale businessman from Serbia who has been held at a federal lock-up in Miami since his arrest in May, faces a potential death penalty if convicted of the new charge, ...

Gregory Newson, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was found guilty of capital murder on Oct. 28 for killing Panola County Deputy Chris Dickerson in 2019.

A caregiver charged with murder in connection with the death of a 4-year-old Cyril girl has turned down a plea deal and will ...

A perennial bill to abolish Ohio’s death penalty got another hearing Wednesday morning, but there’s little time left for it ...

A Caddo County woman, Alysia Adams, declined to plead guilty Wednesday to the murder of four-year-old Athena Brownfield.

Awaiting execution in Oklahoma is Brenda Andrew, 60. She was convicted of first-degree murder over the fatal shooting in 2001 of her estranged husband at their Oklahoma City home. The U.S. Supreme ...

Left-wing groups are pressuring President Joe Biden to commute sentences for all federal death row inmates before he leaves office, ...

A Southern California man who owed a couple $80,000 is accused of killing them and setting their bodies on fire in a vicious ...

The first-degree murder case involving Alysia Adams will go to trial after she decided not to enter a plea in court on Wednesday.