Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The Polk County District Attorney’s Office said Don Steven McDougal pled guilty and will avoid receiving the death penalty.

Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

In February 2024, 11-year-old Audrii was found dead in a after a dayslong search. Her killer was a friend of her father and ...

Don Steven McDougal was sentenced to life for killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham last year. He accepted a plea deal that ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

AKA Mr. Prada—faces charges of first-degree murder, obstruction of justice, aggravated criminal damage to property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

Anti-death penalty activists have taken the prospect ... another inmate at the U.S. penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. At the time, Shannon Agofsky was serving a life sentence for the murder 12 ...