A Miami jury has recommended Alberto Sierra to be sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife and her two young ...

The parliament in the junta-run nation of Burkina Faso has reinstated the death penalty for crimes including terrorism, ...

An Idaho prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against a woman charged with murder in the deaths of her twin toddlers last year. Andrea Shaw has pleaded not guilty. She claims the 18-month-olds ...

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's parliament adopted ⁠a ⁠revised penal code ⁠on Tuesday that restores the death penalty, nearly ​a decade after the West African country abolished capital punishment, ...

A majority of Americans support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, but support becomes more divided when ...

The prosecution is no longer seeking the death penalty for a man accused of shooting and killing two people in 2022 at a Jefferson City bar. Damien Davis, 39, is charged in Cole County with two counts ...

As Andrea Shaw, 23, awaits trial for the murder of her twins, a leading lawyer in the anti-vaccine movement has joined her ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide the amendment's boundaries? And how ...

The botched Tennessee killing has renewed discussion about the ethics of the death penalty ahead of the midterms.

Andrea Shaw has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the 18-month-old twins, and a trial is set to begin Jan. 11.

As a botched Tennessee execution renews death penalty scrutiny, this is what polls show about opinion on capital punishment.

Metallica Rose Harrison could face the death penalty for the Great Wolf Lodge killings, but a private investigator says key ...