Support for the death penalty has dipped to its lowest level in 40 years in the United States, a Pew Research Center reveals, though a small majority of Americans still believes in capital punishment.
The parents of Martin Richard, 8-year-old boy who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, are pleading with federal prosecutors to spear the life of their son's killer.
Utah's state senate approved a bill that would make firing squads the form of execution if drugs are not available. The state has been using lethal injection as its primary form of execution but, as drugs become scarce, states are looking for alternatives.
An Egyptian court on Monday confirmed the death sentences of 183 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood who were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in mid-2013.
An Oklahoma man on Thursday became the first inmate to be put to death after the state's botched execution of Clayton Lockett last year. State prison officials in McAlester declared Charles Warner dead at 7:28 p.m.; it took 18 minutes to carry out the sentence.
The botched execution of Clayton Lockett in April and others this year in Ohio and Arizona did not motivate death penalty states from banning the practice, the Associated Press reported.
A South Carolinian executed at age 14 in 1944 has been exonerated after a judge vacated his murder conviction on Wednesday. George Stinney Jr. is believed to have been the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century.
The United States Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear two cases, one dealing with Confederate flag license plates from Texas and the other dealing with mentally ill death row inmates.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a death row inmate's appeal just hours before his execution. The state of Missouri executed Leon Taylor some time after midnight Wednesday morning for a homicide committed 20 years ago.
The man accused of shooting and killing Pennsylvania state Trooper Byron Dickson was due in court on Friday, a day after the end of a seven-week manhunt for the fugitive, USA Today reported. Eric Frein, whom the newspaper described as a "self-trained survivalist," was apprehended by U.S. Marshals on Thursday evening.
A woman convicted of starving, torturing and killing her girlfriend's 9-year-old son 10 years ago became the second woman to be executed in Texas on Wednesday.
After spending three decades behind bars, two mentally disabled half-brothers were exonerated on Tuesday after DNA evidence proved that they did not rape and murder a child in 1983.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ordered a full review of the state's execution procedure after the execution of a convicted killer took almost two hours on Wednesday.
A federal judge has decided that the death penalty system in California is unconstitutional. A federal judge has decided that the death penalty system in California is unconstitutional.
Hawaii's first capital case since the abolishment of the death penalty will not end in execution. Former soldier Naeem Williams will receive life behind bars for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter. The verdict was decided on Friday after a Honolulu jury failed to come to a consensus decision after seven days of deliberation.
