When the pope came out and essentially said that I am not pro-life if I look at the life of one of these miscreants as being ...

Alabama executed Anthony Boyd using nitrogen gas, a novel execution method criticized as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme ...

For Father’s Day, Summer Shockley drove 60 or so miles from her home in Rolla through central Missouri to see her dad at ...

killed 13 people in a 1982 murder spree. Six of eight death sentences and convictions have been stricken down in Lackawanna County. Pennsylvania’s death row is home to 245 inmates. The state has ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man who was paid $1,000 to kill an Alabama woman more than 30 years ago was put to death with pure nitrogen gas, a first-of-its-kind execution that again placed the United States ...

Before debating whether hanging or lethal injection is cruel, India must ask the bigger question: Does death penalty actually deter heinous crimes?

Gov. Mike Braun this week implied he was open to debate on whether Indiana should end the death penalty, after telling reporters the state had run out of the drug used in two recent executions. “We’ve ...

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months – and Gov. Mike Braun said Tuesday he doesn’t plan to buy more, at least for now.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said during an Aug. 26 Cabinet meeting that his administration would pursue the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in the nation's capital, a vow that ...

Emotions ran high Saturday at the Arizona Death Penalty Forum, as people on both sides of the capital punishment debate shared and discussed their views on the topic. The forum, sponsored by a number ...