A Texas court rejected a ruling that a woman on death row is innocent in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities to release her ...

Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a Utah man who spent decades on ...

Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, a former Miami plastic surgeon, was convicted of the first-degree murder of 41-year-old Steven Cozzi.

Attorneys for a man accused of setting a 2013 Schenectady fire that killed a father and three young children are asking a ...

Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday. Alabama is set to carry out ...

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike has been a prolific letter writer through the years, responding to the sympathetic, the curious, the amorous, even the devious. WBIR has obtained copies ...

A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for ...

Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson when his case goes to trial later this year, a federal judge ruled Friday, throwing out two ...

Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years. Her execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026 — more than 30 ...

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