Death Penalty

A Florida prosecutor is using the case of a man indicted for sex crimes involving children to test a new Florida law that allows child rapists to be executed. On ...

A Florida law that took effect this week sets its sights on both child rapists and a Supreme Court ruling that bars states from executing child rapists when the victim ...

"We're going to pass a federal expedited death penalty for anyone involved in a mass shooting."

After a decidedly slanted report about two Ugandan men charged with "aggravated homosexuality" in their home country, CNN found itself the recipient of a "community note" on X, the social ...

"It is a travesty that Kenneth Smith has been able to avoid his death sentence."

President Joe Biden is under fire from the families of 9/11 victims who are disgusted by his move to offer plea deals to Guantanamo Bay inmates accused of engineering the ...

Accused killer Bryan Kohberger could face the death penalty, and a new mode of execution for Idaho, if he is convicted of the murders of four college students last year ...

Thomas Schiro was sentenced to death in October 1981 for the murder and rape of 28-year-old Laura Luebbehusen. But on Jan. 7, he was released from prison in Evansville, Indiana, ...

The suspect in a brutal Moscow, Idaho, quadruple homicide has reportedly formed a routine while in jail. Bryan Kohberger is closely watching media coverage of his own criminal case, according ...

Two separate incidents of gouging out his eyes have been offered as a reason to stay the execution of a Texas man who was convicted of multiple murders. State District ...

The resort island of Bali conjures up images of beaches and gentle lapping Pacific Ocean waves. But a Brazilian teen who traveled there could end up in front of a ...

A 43-year-old man convicted in the 2007 killing of a Dallas police officer was executed on Wednesday after telling the prison warden, “I’m ready to ride.” Wesley Ruiz, 43, died ...

Speaking in Miami on Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested making convicted child rapists eligible for the death penalty and requiring them to serve a minimum sentence of life in ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was executed this past week, and now his chilling last words before being executed have been revealed. According to Fox News, Scott James Eizember was ...

A probable cause affidavit outlining charges against Bryan Kohberger reveals disturbing new details about the Idaho quadruple homicide he's accused of. The document has been unsealed Thursday following Kohberger's extradition ...

Leftist news outlet CNN is coming under fire for its attempt to garner sympathy for a convicted murderer and rapist who was recently executed in Missouri. On Tuesday, CNN broke ...

The Senate failed to confirm one of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees after learning that he released a criminal on bail who later went on to murder an 11-year-old child. ...

Well, at least you can't say Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is going out with a whimper. Brown, a Democrat, granted commutations to the 17 individuals on death row in the ...

The color of the American flag is making way for gay pride imagery on the logo of the American national soccer team. The men's national soccer team is replacing the ...

"It got ugly."