When the justices return to the bench to hear oral arguments in the fall, they will tackle several hot-button issues, ...

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will soon find out if ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will have to wait a ...

Act 662 is set to go into effect August 5, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty against child rapists.

An octogenarian death row has died, according to Florida court records, making him at least the seventh death row inmate to ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes into effect Aug. 5. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that ...

Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

A man who fatally shot another man and a woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed ...

Michael Bernard Bell was the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with a ninth scheduled for later this month.