One of the most infamous murder cases in New York City during the 1980s involved a Ridgewood woman at the center of a criminal investigation against her ...

Evidence of atrocities emerging from the city of El Fasher stoked fears that the Sudanese region of Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.

In 1862, a 27-year-old woman stood before thousands the last to be publicly executed in Scotland. Her name was Mary Timney, ...

Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found shot along Florida highways. The killer was Aileen Wuornos — a hitchhiking sex ...

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

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

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

A recent child sex abuse case in South Florida is one of the first in the country to see a possible death sentence, raising ...