Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled Marion Bowman Jr.’s Jan. 31 execution, amidst legal challenges and a pause for ...

The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...

House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago.