The Florida Supreme Court has given the final go-ahead for the execution of Bryan Fredrick Jennings, convicted decades ago for the 1979 murder of six-year-old Rebecca Kunash. In a decision released ...

Banks had been in prison since 1982 after shooting 14 people and killing 13, including his own children, during a rampage in ...

Editor’s note: This story was reported and published prior to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision on Oct. 9 to grant Robert Roberson a stay of execution. Robert Roberson was never charged ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

A Madison County judge has ruled that the death penalty remains an option if Shannon Gilday is convicted in the 2022 killing ...