Unless Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama, decides to commute Mr. Burton’s sentence, the state is set to kill him on March 12.

Sources reveal Rob Reiner faced urgent warnings about Nick Reiner’s unstable behavior before the fatal incident.

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued the fifth death warrant of the year for James Duckett, sentenced to death for the 1987 rape and murder of a young girl.

That’s the greatest argument against the death penalty. And it’s one Alabama keeps making with every unjust and torturous execution.

An appeals court heard a government effort to resurrect the 2007 interrogations of a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered a new penalty-phase hearing in the case of Wayne A. Smith, after finding that his ...

The largest number of death row inmates is in California. Right now, there are an estimated 580 inmates (including 18 women) in California awaiting execution, although there has not been an execution ...

Wisconsin lawmakers are circulating a bill that could bring back the death penalty for certain child sex offenses.

Justice Kizito Magare sentenced Julius Macharia to death for defiling and killing seven-year-old Tamara Blessing Kabira, reigniting debate over capital punishment for murder and robbery.

Mark Sievers' attorneys hoped Lee Circuit Judge Bruce Kyle would overturn his conviction and death sentence with the appeal.

A Utah County prosecutor’s office will be allowed to continue building its death penalty case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, despite defense attorneys’ claims that it ...