More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith, the state has announced a new lethal ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 23 The Washington Post on President Biden's commutation of death sentences ...

Check out reporter Zach Mentz's 11 most-read trending news, sports and entertainment stories on cleveland.com from 2024.

A notorious Japanese serial killer known as the “Black Widow” has died on death row while awaiting execution for poisoning ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

An Idaho man whose father was executed in 2012 — the most recent prisoner put to death by the state — will spend up to 50 ...

Billionaires and big business are pledging to donate to the president-elect’s inaugural fund like never before.

President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to expand federal use of the death penalty, condemns President Joe Biden’s decision ...

Seven people sentenced to death in the Carolinas were among the more than three-dozen federal death row inmates to have their ...

On the same day that President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of seven Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his own set of ...

Donald Trump spent Christmas wishing ill to his enemies and wondering why President Joe Biden wouldn’t want to execute inmates ...