Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged in federal court with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system ...

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is ...

On Oct. 22, a grand jury in North Carolina found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. had "intentionally killed" Iryna Zarutska, 23 ...

Federal grand jury indicts Decarlos Brown Jr. for the unprovoked stabbing death of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who had fled ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Daniel Callihan, 37, has already accepted a plea deal from federal prosecutors that will spare him the death penalty for the ...

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

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

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Right now, Kentucky does not have the necessary drugs that would be required to carry out any execution,” Gov. Andy Beshear ...