In a significant development in the ongoing discussion around capital punishment, an Arizona man, Aaron Gunches, was executed on Wednesday for a first-degree murder conviction dating back to 2008.

By Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) offered a ...

The Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) offered a new but tiny glimpse into Indiana’s efforts to resume executions, ...

It was an all too familiar scene in Starke during the March 20 execution of Eddie James. Two groups trying to make sense of ...

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Maybe it’s the stench of ammonia in Nazi death labs, where prisoners ... they have resurrected the horrors of the past. Arizona, Alabama, and Oklahoma are reviving the gas chamber.

Jesperson told author M. William Phelps in the book Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer that he “beat her ...

Hochman ousted George Gascón to become district attorney last year. He was a strong opponent of the death penalty, announcing in one of his first major decisions that his office would no longer ...

Los Angeles’ new tough-on-crime District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office will "immediately" begin seeking the death penalty — but only "in the rarest of cases" after thorough review.

Kitty Dukakis, whose husband was the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, publicly battled depression and addictions.

EL PASO, Texas – Texas prosecutors said Tuesday they will not pursue the death penalty in the case against a man charged with killing 23 people and injuring dozens in a racially charged ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing county prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in place by his predecessor and making good on a campaign promise.