The family’s ongoing protests, often at 7:30 a.m. with upwards of two dozen friends before hearings began, has brought ...

The first of five teens accused in a deadly Valentine’s Day attack at San Jose’s Santana Row has been handed down his sentence.

A Santa Clara County judge on Wednesday sentenced the first in a group of teens accused of stabbing a 15-year-old boy to ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded a death penalty inmate’s case to trial court after granting him a stay of execution two days before he was scheduled to be put to death in March.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded a death penalty inmate’s case to trial court after granting him a stay of execution two days before he was scheduled to be put to death in March.

The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole will hold a hearing to determine if death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies' sentence should be changed to life in prison without parole.

A commutation hearing will happen for Ralph Menzies. Menzies execution by firing squad is just over five weeks away, on September 5th.In an order published to t ...

Multiple agencies are investigating a death that occurred on board a Texas-based Carnival Dream cruise ship, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“California death penalty prosecutions in the last five years alone have led to court costs of more than $300 million.” ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is asking the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his October execution.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday that the state can deactivate a death row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a hospital on the morning of his execution, rather than ...

At least 34 boys from the Dozier School were later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?