Should Jodi Arias and other convicted murderers be allowed to choose the death penalty? At first glance, the death penalty appears to be the harsher sentence but if Arias prefers death, does life in prison become the harsher sentence?

Jodi Arias, now a convicted murderer, will return Thursday to the same Arizona courtroom where she was convicted, and now her lawyers will fight to ke...

A Georgia inmate named Warren Hill, who came within forty minutes of a lethal injection in February, is in legal limbo this week. His case represents a "perfect storm" of the seemingly insurmountable problems that beset courts and state legislatures in applying the death penalty.

Texas conducted its fourth execution of the year Thursday night, an event now so routine that the state's major newspapers didn't even send reporters.

STARKE, Fla. -- A man who killed a 10-year-old girl he snatched off her bike on her way to school has been executed in Florida. Authorities said 59-y...

Over time, Supreme Court Justices have fine-tuned the circumstances under which the death penalty may still apply, but no set of laws or jurisprudence can undo wrongful executions -- or, it seems, completely prevent them.

JACKSON, Ga. — Georgia has executed a 38-year-old inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1995. Andrew Allen Cook was pronounced de...

There is no better way for Maryland to celebrate King Day this month than to repeal the death penalty now.

Right now we are dangerously close to repeating earlier mistakes in granting so much airtime to notorious suspects.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia has added a new drug to be used in executions to replace one that is in short supply across the U.S. The Virginia Departmen...

Warren Hill is scheduled to be executed in Georgia. This is despite the fact that Warren Hill is mentally retarded.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — An inmate who once bragged about the headlines generated by the carjacking and murder that sent him to death row will be not...

SOMERS, Conn. (AP) — Daniel Webb is awaiting execution for the 1989 kidnapping and murder of a Connecticut bank executive, but he believes he is als...

CLEVELAND — An inmate is too mentally ill to be executed for the killings of his wife and brother-in-law, a judge ruled Friday in a decision tha...

I am writing about Timothy McVeigh because I am afraid that we will forget him. For in forgetting him, we overlook others like him -- individuals who not only have an insidious world view but who have the conceit to take others' lives in acting upon it.

A Utah man has opted for execution by firing squad to carry out his death sentence for a 1988 murder in which he stabbed a man in the liver with a tir...

I agree -- even though my own rage would be hyperactive if I or a loved one was violated -- I still agree that killing for killing's sake does not bring a person back, and who is to say that it does justice if it enmeshes us forever in a cycle of violence?