FoulsCode

Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004 in the deaths of 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, and the couple's unborn ...

An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years. The state is trying to move past an agreement ma...

FRANKFORT — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is moving to restart executions in Kentucky.Coleman announced Friday that he has filed...

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling the practice unconstitutional, Sen. Mike Moon’s legislation would allow the death penalty in non-homic...

In May 1990, Jonathan Eig, then a reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, witnessed the electric-chair-execution of Dalton Prejean at A...

Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested methodThree of the largest manufacturers o...

The state of Florida executed six inmates last year, including one from Palm Beach County. Four of them, including the one from Palm Beach C...

The Pardon and Parole board has denied clemency for death row inmate Michael Smith in a hearing on Wednesday.Smith is convicted of two separ...

The governor also signed bills that eliminate parole for adults who commit crimes after Aug. 1 and dramatically cut the availability of good...

Eight times, a medical team in an Idaho prison tried to establish an intravenous line to deliver a lethal injection to condemned inmate Thom...

Last Wednesday, the state of Texas likely executed an innocent person when it put Ivan Cantu to death. Sadly that is nothing new for either ...

On February 28, 2023, the Oklahoma House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee unanimously passed a bill that would pause all pending e...

Less than two months after the Los Angeles Innocence Project took up the case of convicted murderer Scott Peterson, a judge in San Mateo Cou...

ATLANTA — A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March in what would be Georgia's first e...

Louisiana is on the cusp of resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after the Legislature gave final pass...

They claim it’s ‘untested, dangerous and inhumane,’ while a proponent calls it ‘painless’ and not subject to shortagesLINCOLN — A proposal t...

KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members po...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who had long claimed his conviction more than 20 years ago was based on false testimony and questionabl...

The execution of Thomas Creech scheduled for Wednesday morning was canceled at 11 a.m. Idaho Department of Correction director Josh Tewalt d...

Texans have long taken pride in the fact that their state is “like a whole other country,” but the truth is, in many ways, it’s like a whole...