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Oregon Gov.Kate Brown announced on Dec. 13 that 17 inmates awaiting execution will instead have their death sentences changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. "I have long ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif.—The California Supreme Court Nov. 28 upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of gunning down ...

New York Republicans are calling for the death sentence to be reinstated in response to the mass shooting ...

LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles man twice convicted of murdering his father, stepmother, and 8-year-old stepsister 40 years ago ...

A prison in South Carolina is set to execute its first death row inmate in 11 years, now ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) said on Friday that death row inmates in the state are ...

SAN DIEGO—A man who shot two San Diego police officers, one of whom died, was sentenced to death ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—A judge on Thursday sentenced a Florida man to death for fatally shooting an Orlando police officer ...

A Missouri man whose death sentence was overturned three times before being reinstated is now scheduled to die ...

A North Korean man has reportedly been sentenced to death by authorities after he was caught distributing copies ...

Commentary Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the nation’s reddest ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones, a death row inmate, just ...

RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 slayings of ...

Commentary On Aug. 10, Canadian Robert Schellenberg lost an appeal against a death sentence handed down in a ...

LONG BEACH—One of three men who had been on death row for the December 1998 rape and beating ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. ...

China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following ...

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran executed a man convicted of providing information to the United States and Israel about a prominent ...

The Chinese regime has granted Australian government officials consular access to visit Karm Gilespie who is facing execution ...

A friend of Australian man Karm Gilespie who is facing a death sentence in China for drug smuggling ...

An Australian man has been sentenced to death in China for alleged drug smuggling. Cam Gillespie was arrested ...

Alabama is set to execute an inmate on the night of March 5 for the murders of three ...

A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Friday, hours after he spoke in ...

For five years straight, the United States has seen a decline in the number of death sentences, with ...

The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on Oct. 24 ...

A jury issued a death sentence for a South Carolina man who was convicted in a deadly bank ...

A man who admitted to killing a woman before kidnapping and raping the woman's 10-year-old daughter was sentenced ...