Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...
A man accused of murdering two people in a Northeast Nebraska town could still get the death penalty after the latest ruling ...
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.
The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...
Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...