The state's top lawyer said two companies exercised deceptive practices by repeatedly selling to underage consumers.

Goldwater was no doubt referring to Ezra Taft Benson, Steve’s grandfather and a powerful figure as Dwight Eisenhower’s ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his apartment near Tokyo.

Vietnam abolishes death penalty for 8 crimes, sparing real estate tycoon in major fraud case, with legal reforms.

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process ...

Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

A judge has ruled that prosecutors can pursue the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022.

“Under death qualification,” the report states, “a juror who says they oppose the death penalty on principle is automatically struck.

Attorneys in an MS-13 case raised concerns after federal prosecutors in a Reno case said they would not seek death, then reversed course last week.

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a punishment his predecessor did not use.