Bryan Herrera, 16, was shot and killed while riding his bicycle in Miami just a few days before Christmas in 2012.

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

Prosecutors Tuesday urged a Clark County jury to find a man guilty of a revenge killing for murdering and cutting up and ...

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

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The Sealdah court rejected CBI's plea seeking death penalty for Roy, saying the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the ...

Sanjay Roy was held guilty under Sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the ...