A federal court of appeals ruled on March 2 to uphold the sentence for a death row inmate who was convicted in 1987 for killing two men at a variety store in Madison County.

A federal appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a man convicted in a 1987 double murder, Attorney General Russell ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Thursday that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the capital sentence of a death row inmate convicted nearly ...

A man and woman convicted in the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy who was sitting in the back seat of a car in Cleveland last year were sentenced Thursday in Cuyahoga County court.

A man charged in connection with the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in Lakewood was sentenced to more than two decades in prison Wednesday. Court records show that Philix Baca, 21, pleaded ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered a new penalty-phase hearing in the case of Wayne A. Smith, after finding that his ...

New Delhi: Highlighting that a high acquittal rate of death row convicts by the Supreme Court and high courts demonstrates a pattern of "erroneous or unjustified convictions", a study of 10 years of ...