Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more expensive due to lengthy trials, extensive appeals, and specialized housing ...

Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. She filed a ...

James Broadnax's execution date is scheduled for April 30 in the state of Texas.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman wants a two-decade-old case over the death penalty thrown out. Here’s how that ...

Christa Pike is being held on death row in Tennessee, and is set to become the first woman executed in the state in 200 years ...