The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court ...

Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

Michigan made history 180 years ago becoming the first English-speaking government to abolish the death penalty. Two notable ...

Just how obsessed is the legislature’s “justice reform” wing with emptying Colorado’s prisons? Let’s just say if they could get away with it, they’d stage a fire drill and open the gates at every ...

I had just turned 14 when my life resembled that of an American classic killer-next-door story. My 13-year-old neighbor fatally shot his 11-year-old brother — a horrifying act subsequently reduced by ...

The author, a family member of a murder victim, argues the death penalty does not provide healing or justice. Executions force victims' families to relive their trauma without offering closure. The ...