TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two challenges to a 2023 law that allows judges to impose death sentences without unanimous jury recommendations. Ruling in cases from ...

A SURVIVOR of the Parkland school shooting has died at the age of 26 – almost eight years after the horror. Donovan Metayer died on December 15 after a battle with schizophrenia, his ...

Michael James Jackson, the man identified as the ringleader in the grim 2005 "buried alive" murders of a Jacksonville couple, ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentences of Michael James Jackson, the ringleader of a group that kidnapped a frail, elderly couple in 2005 and buried them alive. The ruling ...

The two first-degree murder counts include a special circumstance, which increases the maximum punishment if he is convicted. By Soumya Karlamangla Nick Reiner, the younger son of the celebrated ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African country abolished the heinous practice. The last known judicial execution in ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled. At issue is the case against Joseph Clifton Smith of Alabama.

In Hamm v. Smith, the Supreme Court will consider how IQ tests can be used to determine when an individual with an intellectual disability may be spared from the death penalty. Authors’ note: The ...

Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr. and other notable figures took to social media to share their reaction to Tom Hicks’ death over the weekend. Hicks, the Texas businessman and philanthropist who owned two ...