A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

Ruben Gutierrez's lawyers say new evidence tests would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year ...

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...