While we understand that lewd conduct with a minor is a serious and devastating crime to commit, we do not think that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for that crime,” the ACLU of Idaho ...

A jury of his peers found Corcoran guilty, he exhausted his appeals through state and federal courts, and Gov. Eric Holcomb ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections ...

Two US states have executed convicted murderers, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week.

A death row inmate in the US state of Louisiana was executed by nitrogen inhalation, a method previously used only in ...