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.

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 ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.

The U.S. Supreme Court and Mississippi Supreme Court denied last-minute emergency petitions to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was executed Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter in a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the ...