On New Year’s Day in 2019, Tarpon Springs police conducted a welfare check on a couple whose son said he hadn’t heard from them in weeks. They arrived at a gruesome scene: the couple and their other son lying dead alongside the family’s three dogs.

A judge should not delay the decision on whether to seek the death penalty against a woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont, federal prosecutors said this week. Teresa Youngblut,

Attorneys for the government wrote in a filing that the judiciary does not have authority to order the executive branch how to carry out its decision-making process.

Attorneys for Ralph Menzies have filed a petition for commutation to the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, asking that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of

Donald Trump also signed a legislation to amend the Controlled Substances Act regarding the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances.

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, has prefiled HB 20 for the 2026 session, which would make it a capital offense to murder a person while “knowingly creat (ing) a great risk of death to multiple persons.”

US President Donald Trump stated that the United States is negotiating a deal with China under which Beijing would impose the death penalty on individuals involved in producing or trafficking fentanyl into the US Trump claimed that both countries are working together to implement stricter measures to curb the flow of the deadly drug.

There were tense and descriptive moments in a Pinellas County courtroom Wednesday as opening statements began in the sentencing phase for Shelby Nealy.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.