The Supreme Court yesterday (July 16) converted the death penalty to life imprisonment without remission, extending to the ...

The court ruled in 1972 that the death penalty system was unconstitutional because it was being applied in an arbitrary manner. The decision lead to a temporary moratorium, until the court ...

The death penalty reared its head again at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. It was the first time the court publicly considered a death case since last term, when a constitutional challenge to ...

Supreme Court pivots to abortion, guns, and death penalty as public approval slides . Justices face one of the most consequential terms in years, analysts say.

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

The post–Anthony Kennedy Supreme Court majority has introduced itself to the nation by strapping itself to the decaying corpse of the American death penalty. It is a curious choice. Capital ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would not allow the Trump administration to resume executions in federal death penalty cases after a 16-year hiatus.

There have been 186 death row exonerations since 1973 in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s 186 formerly incarcerated people who were found innocent after having ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – In a high-profile death penalty case, the Supreme Court is weighing whether to throw out the murder conviction of an Oklahoma death row inmate. The state’s appeals court ...