Attorneys for Luigi Mangione filed a motion on Friday to block capital punishment, saying the Trump administration is seeking the death penalty as a “political stunt.” Mangione is facing both federal ...

Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting ...

Lawyers for suspected assassin Luigi Mangione have filed a motion in federal court asking the judge to block the Justice ...

Luigi Mangione's lawyers argue the DOJ’s decision to seek the death penalty is biased and unconstitutional in high-profile ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

A viral post claims that Ex-China Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new lethal injection protocol.

Attorneys for two Tennessee inmates facing execution this year are asking Gov. Bill Lee to declare a reprieve until a judge ...