Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes into effect Aug. 5.

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

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

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

The Florida Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for Michael Bell, convicted in the 1993 shooting deaths of two ...

A coalition of former attorneys general, judges, and prosecutors have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

The Florida Supreme Court has upheld death sentences in two separate court cases. In one, out of the Florida Keys, the justices acknowledged improper statements made by a prosecutor, but rejected ...