The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an attempt to resume executions.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

governor jeff landry announced today the sentences of death row inmates in our state will be carried out...after fifteen years of not carrying out the death penalty.

Indiana legislative effort to abolish death penalty gains support from Archbishop Charles C. Thompson. He cites the Roman Catholic Church's position on dignity of life and death.

Convicted of drug & sex trafficking, strip club owner also faces charges in alleged murder of witness, for which prosecutors had decided not to seek death penalty.

BLOUNT CO., Tenn. (WVLT) - The man accused of killing a Blount County deputy and injuring another has filed a lawsuit against the county, the sheriff and deputies for excessive use of force.

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

Lawmakers introduced the bill after the HBO show ‘Last Week Tonight’ revealed that a CT company was the source of a drug used ...

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...