Pennsylvania House Bill 99 and House Bill 888 supporters argue that capital punishment is costly, inconsistently applied and ...

Prosecutors have agreed to take the death penalty off the table in the criminal case of Pam Hupp, a woman accused in the ...

James Franklin Rose has been waiting a lifetime to be put to death. In 1976, Rose kidnapped and killed an 8-year-old ...

Pope Leo said “the death penalty is inadmissible” and he supports anyone trying to abolish it in the U.S.

Melissa Lucio remains on death row in Cameron County, Texas, nearly four years after her scheduled execution was halted and ...

With two days away from his scheduled execution, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax remains hopeful.

The death penalty is not justice,” Rabb said in a news conference after the Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 99.

Elwyn Crocker Sr. pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole after prosecutors offered a plea deal that removed ...

Pennsylvania has a moratorium on the death penalty. Now there’s a push to abolish it altogether. Two bills that would do that ...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Fayetteville woman accused of killing her two adopted children, Blake and ...

Pam Hupp will not face the death penalty when she goes to trial for the murder of Betsy Faria. In a hearing Tuesday, Hupp ...