Before she leaves office, outgoing Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced that she commuted the sentences of all 17 death row inmates in the state. She then called the punishment of death both dysfunctional and immoral.
A Texas nurse, who was convicted of capital murder, was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing four patients who had been recovering from heart operations.
Scott Peterson will be sentenced to life imprisonment this fall for the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son, a judge said.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on the death penalty while ordering the Justice Department to review its policies and procedures.
Over 17 years have passed, and prosecutors are still trying to give the proper sentencing to Scott Peterson, who was incarcerated after he murdered his wife Lacie Peterson and their unborn son Conor.
The notorious criminal is responsible for murdering a dozen people, raping 45, and terrorizing 120 homes across California. He is expected to avoid the death sentence for 62 charges.
The U.S. Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that Florida's death penalty law is unconstitutional. The reason given is that the state's law gives more powers to judges rather than juries to decide whether the perpetrator should be given capital punishment.
Just in time for Veterans Day, the Death Penalty Information Center released a report revealing that about 300 U.S. veterans are currently on death row in prisons across the nation.
An autopsy report showed Oklahoma prison officials used an unapproved drug in the January execution of a convicted murderer, whose final words were "my body is on fire."
The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday deciding that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. The decision also stated that exemptions to the state's death penalty ban violated Connecticut's constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
After a two and a half hour debate, Nebraska legislatures passed an historic bill on Wednesday, becoming the first conservative state to outlaw the death penalty since 1973. Lawmakers overrode the governor's veto.
After spending 14 hours deliberating, jurors in the Boston Marathon bomber sentencing trial sentenced the convicted terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to death on Friday.
