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

The state killed Anthony Boyd last night, and the process was anything but humane.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Austin Sarat, Amherst College (THE CONVERSATION) Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in ...

Anthony Boyd was convicted of capital murder in the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County, Alabama.

Iryna's Law allows convicted individuals to choose between the electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.

The fatal stabbing on a Charlotte light-rail train last month has prompted calls for the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina. North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said Thursday he wants ...

Decarlos Brown a man with a long documented criminal history is charged with the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th woman executed in modern U.S. history.

A North Carolina man with a lengthy criminal history was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in the fatal stabbing of ...