Part of that they say is improving education, eliminating poverty, supporting small businesses, and fighting back against ...

Roberto Silva Jr., who pleaded guilty to murder charges for the Bellevue Sonic shooting, is expected back in court Monday.

State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...

Lawmakers held a hearing for two different pieces of legislation that would change the death penalty. LR15CA is a constitutional amendment that would get rid of the death penalty. LB432 is a bill that ...