Earlier this month, Palm Beach County prosecutors announced that they would be seeking the death penalty against two men ...

A judge in New Mexico has halted a federal death penalty case, citing the pinch of the U.S. government shutdown and a funding ...

Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged in federal court with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system ...

On Oct. 22, a grand jury in North Carolina found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. had "intentionally killed" Iryna Zarutska, 23 ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

A federal grand jury indicted Decarlos Brown Jr. in the unprovoked stabbing death of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who had fled ...

Daniel Callihan, 37, has already accepted a plea deal from federal prosecutors that will spare him the death penalty for the ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.