The Virginia General Assembly and then-Governor Ralph Northam abolished Virginia’s use of capital punishment four years and one month ago. A Virginia prosecutor and social justice activist differ on ...

Chief District Judge Robert Molloy has denied the Justice Department’s request for a 120-day stay in the murder case of ...

Gov. Lee ordered TDOC to create a new death penalty protocol after discovering issues with the system and the lethal injection drugs. However, critics claim the new protocol is even worse ...

The upcoming execution of Oscar Franklin Smith has caused a deeper look into the history and methods of execution and current ways Death Row offenders are managed.

A judge has struck down federal prosecutors’ plan to pursue the death penalty in a Reno case after they said they would not ...

Federal prosecutors in Maryland filed notice Friday that they intend to seek the death penalty against three defendants in an ...

The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-proposed referendum opposing the abolition of the ...

There are dozens of countries that harness capital punishment to deter the flow of illegal drugs within their borders. That ...

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...

Campbell told media outlets that Ikner will face the ultimate punishment a day after the grand jury issued its indictment ...

Glen Rogers shouted out President Trump as he lay strapped to an execution gurney seconds before Florida executed him by lethal injection.

On May 13, prosecutors filed paperwork in court signaling their intention to seek the death penalty if Sencere Hayes is found ...