TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death, ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentences of Michael James Jackson, the ringleader of a group that ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two challenges to a 2023 law that allows judges to impose death sentences ...

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

The Florida Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentence for Richard Barry Randolph, who was convicted of the 1988 murder of Minnie Ruth McCollum in Palatka. The Court denied Randolph's appeal of ...

LIBERTY, Mo. — A man convicted in the 2022 murder of North Kansas City Police Ofc. Daniel Vasquez has been sentenced to death. Last month, jurors found Joshua Rocha guilty of first-degree murder in ...

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The supreme court has affirmed the death sentence imposed on Maryam Sanda over the death of Bilyamin Mohammed Bello, her husband.

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a rehearing for death row inmate Martez Abram. Abram was convicted of killing two Walmart coworkers in Southaven in July 2019. He was sentenced to death in ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...