More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

Ohio State returns to action after a bye week as the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 welcomes Penn State. Picks and predictions!

Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

A January 1917 “Buffalo Evening News” article deemed legendary Boston third baseman and manager Jimmy Collins as “the first ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...

The first half was come-and-go for No. 3 Texas A&M in Baton Rouge, but second half was a solid coat of Maroon and White.

Texas woman convicted of gruesome murder appeals death sentence, claiming prosecutors used humiliating evidence improperly.

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

The likes of Ronnie Lee Gardner, Ted Bundy, and Nelson Shelton had some interesting final requests before their deaths.

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...

Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a drug debt. Anthony Boyd was ...

The Ohio Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Danny Lee Hill case Wednesday that could determine whether ...