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

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.

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 ...

Anti-death penalty advocates believe the U.S. Supreme Court, currently conservative, could change how life circumstances are considered when a death penalty is handed down in courtrooms across the ...

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 ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices are photographed April 20, 1972, two months before the court's decision in the death penalty case Furman v. Georgia.

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

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 — 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.

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 ...