Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...

A man incarcerated in the Lehigh County Jail was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive Thursday inside a cell, ...

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

Alkiohn Dunkins was convicted in the killing of 18-year-old Tyrell Holmes. He was found guilty of first-degree murder, ...

Officials have not released anything about the death of Travis P. Shorts, 34, who died at 2:55 a.m. on March 6 at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville. He had been hospitalized elsewhere on Feb. 10 ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all clemency granted by the governor.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

A Philadelphia man was ordered Friday to stand trial in Cambria County court in the November stabbing death of an Adams ...

FILE – This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

Last year, Kenneth Smith, an Alabama death row inmate who was convicted in 1988,became the first known person in the world to be executed via nitrogen hypoxia. Despite the state’s claim that the ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.