On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Florida authorities have scheduled David Pittman, 63, to be executed on September 17, in a case that dates to May 1990 when ...

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Two men could get death sentences if convicted of murder over the fatal shooting of a government witness. The trial has been pushed back to 2027.

Andrew James McGann could face the death penalty if convicted of killing a couple at Devil's Den State Park in Washington ...

A 21-year-old Seattle woman has been indicted on federal charges in the January shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...