In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

Death row inmate’s next moves lie with Texas Supreme Court When a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was swept thousands of miles away, ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Missouri previously had virtually no oversight for religious ... BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily halted ...

A prominent Catholic anti-death penalty group is urging outgoing President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 ...

When someone’s eyes linger on the mutilated body of Emmett Till, “justice” is the last word anyone would think. Yet, it was ...

Oregon is a unanimous choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. The Ducks hope to also be in the top ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Marcellus Williams are pointing ... prosecutors likely had enough evidence to convict him. But Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey intervened, and the Missouri ...

Mark Sievers, sentenced to death in 2020, is asking the court to vacate his capital punishment, calling the ruling in his case unconstitutional.

The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread ... In September, Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection in Missouri after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney ...

Death row survivors, families of murder victims ... in South Carolina and the execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri. Williams was convicted in 1998 for murder, allegedly stabbing and ...