That’s the default most states with the death penalty use today. A few conduct a new penalty phase. Since Missouri changed its law in 1984, Rice is one of at least 18 people who have been sentenced to ...

Clive Crook is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering economics. Previously, he was deputy editor of the Economist and chief Washington commentator for the Financial ...

A 13-year-old Sun Valley boy who was allegedly murdered by his soccer coach died of acute alcohol poisoning, according to a civil attorney for the victim's family.

Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

Darrell Robinson's conviction and death-penalty sentence have been affirmed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell said his office would move ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said.

Canada had aspirations of winning the Gold Cup. Instead, it's on the wrong side of Guatemala's history and left to lament an ...

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson could be dead by the time his appeal is heard. And what Paxton wants to do ...

Michael Bell's attorney raised a series of issues with the Florida Supreme Court, including that witnesses recently recanted ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...