A group of Minnesota judges and justices formed a rock band to relieve stress and promote rule of law at a time of ...

Walz and almost all Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers support a ban on so-called assault weapons. But with no Republican ...

Frank Walls, convicted of the 1987 murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday, Dec.

A Minnesota DFL official from the Iron Range has resigned just over a year after she was charged with vehicular homicide.

Even as more state leaders try to expand capital punishment, fewer jurors are choosing it.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was executed by lethal injection for the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum in the small Florida town of East Palatka.

If the execution moves forward, Randolph will become the 17th inmate executed in Florida this year − a record − and the 44th in the U.S.

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the U.S., there has been a sharp reversal. If all the scheduled executions are carried out, that would make 2025 the year with the ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

Central Asia’s path to abolishing the death penalty was gradual but firm. In Kyrgyzstan, a moratorium on executions was introduced in 1998 and renewed every year until the 2007 referendum that ...

Florida has executed 16 people this year, the most of any state in the modern era. The article proposes life in prison without parole as a sufficient alternative to the death penalty. I argued earlier ...