Florida’s ramp-up in executions is happening at the same time public support for the death penalty is at its lowest level in ...

President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

Robert Hecht, Shawnee County's chief prosecutor from 1965 to 1969 and again from 2001 to 2009, died Aug. 21 in Topeka. He was ...

Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits.

Elias Rodriguez stands accused of shooting Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim to death outside the ...