Daniel Sikkema was charged with the plotting the 2024 murder of his husband, Manhattan art gallery owner Brent Sikkema, in ...

The estranged husband of an art dealer who was found stabbed to death in Brazil last year has been charged with hiring a hit man.

A bill has been filed this legislative session that would abolish the death penalty on the state level. Many religious groups ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

An Australian woman awaiting trial in the US over the death of her stepdaughter will not face the death penalty. US prosecutors have withdrawn their intention to seek the death penalty "without ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed ... had failed to prove how his constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment would be violated.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Their executions were criticized by death penalty abolitionists. Related Texas executes man for 2011 murder of church pastor China executes 2 men behind separate deadly attacks in November Biden ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...