Minnesota may not have the death penalty, but that doesn’t mean Vance Boelter is safe from it if he's convicted in federal ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

The suspected killer of a Minnesota lawmaker could face the death penalty, US prosecutors said Monday as they revealed ...

Second-degree murder convictions in Minnesota carry a penalty of three to 40 years in prison, while first-degree murder charges carry a sentence of up to life in prison.

Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

I’m looking forward to getting the last pieces of paperwork that say he’s been executed to put into the book and never having ...

Closing arguments are underway in the capital murder trial of Oscar Rosales for a jury to decide the 55-year-old Salvadoran's ...

Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 ...