The Saudi prisoner agreed to the settlement to avoid a death-penalty trial, his lawyer said, but it has yet to reach the ...

Kohberger’s lawyers are asking the judge to take the death penalty off the table before the trial gets underway ... asser­tions of intel­lec­tu­al disability rejected.” ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, ...

triggering a new penalty trial. During jury selection, which began last week, Arguelles asked potential jurors whether they felt they could impose the death penalty if warranted. He separately asked ...

A Lawrence County jury wrapped up deliberations for the day a couple of hours ago in a capital murder trial without reaching a verdict.

A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by attorneys for a man accused of killing four women at Atlanta massage businesses to keep a jury from hearing statements he made after his ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

At trial, Con-ui’s attorneys admitted he was guilty of the murder, but focused their attention on sparing him the death penalty for the crime. Eleven of the jurors supported the death sentence ...

Alabama carried out the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas. The state put Demetrius Frazier to death for a 1991 rape and murder of a woman. Frazier was from Michigan. Death penalty ...

The bill, drafted by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office, aims to expedite trials for violent criminal cases, reduce court backlogs, and provide swift justice for victims.

(AP) — Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney ... The use of nitrogen gas is one way for death penalty states to resume executions ...