A sweeping presidential pardon for January 6 rioters drew the criticism of North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday.

Prosecutors Tuesday urged a Clark County jury to find a man guilty of a revenge killing for murdering and cutting up and setting on fire the remains of the person they say ...

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises. Speaking from ...

A Cumberland County judge denied bond for the man accused of killing a former Fayetteville City Councilman's daughter.

A Cumberland County judge denied bond for the man accused of killing a former Fayetteville City Councilman’s daughter.

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the ...

There are 144 countries that by practice or law, have abandoned the death penalty. There are 195 countries ... In the world, only Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and North Korea have executed more ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. Not only is it hugely and uniquely ...

In my experience, juries in death penalty cases are thoughtful and meticulous in one of the most difficult duties a citizen ...

Despite reimposition of the death penalty in 1994, Kansas hasn’t executed anyone ... Frank Baumgartner, a professor of ...