criminal punishment

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs, California proposed Friday to allow corrections officials to c...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a ro...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal authorities have confiscated shipments of a lethal-injection chemical that Arizona and Texas tried to bring in from abroa...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed un...

No executions will be scheduled in Oklahoma until at least next year, as the attorney general's office investigates why the state used the wrong drug ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma used the wrong drug to stop an inmate's heart during an execution in January, according to an autopsy report obtained by...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate set to die Tuesday for killing another man in a Houston robbery that yielded just $8 has not had any late appeals filed ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip was just minutes away from his scheduled lethal injection, stripped of all his belon...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Wednesday execution after the state's highest crimin...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — The latest on the scheduled execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip (all times local): 11:50 a.m. An appeals co...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The jury in the Colorado theater shooting trial will hear even more heart-wrenching testimony Tuesday from those who lost lov...

DENVER (AP) — The time has come for jurors to hear whether James Holmes should be executed for killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater. But even...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two dissenting ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Trying again to execute the country's only survivor of a botched lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and do...