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 ...

A judge has granted the state's motion to recuse District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio from Ron Haskell's case. Haskell ...

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 ...