BOISE, Idaho - The State of Idaho is preparing to execute its first inmate since 2012, but it first needs to find the chemicals to carry out the lethal injection.
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from two death row inmates seeking more information about Idaho’s execution plans.
A North Idaho woman accused of killing her husband could be sentenced to life in prison or face the death penalty if convicted.
A House committee has passed a measure to repeal the state's death penalty law, but whether it will receive vote by the full House is still uncertain.
A measure that would repeal the state's death penalty law has passed the Senate for the third time in three years.
A series of federal executions that were set to begin on Monday will remain on hold, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
Seven men were sentenced to death Wednesday by a court in Bangladesh after being found guilty of helping to organize the country's deadliest ever terrorist atrocity.
The federal government has ordered the death penalty to be reinstated for the first time in nearly two decades, as Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates after adopting an updated execution protocol.
The Food and Drug Administration does not have jurisdiction over death penalty drugs, the Justice Department said in an opinion.
Brunei will not impose the death penalty on those convicted of having gay sex, in an apparent bid to temper international condemnation following its roll out of strict new Islamic laws last month.
A Georgia inmate has been executed for the murders of two women in 1994, the state's Department of Corrections said.
A Georgia stepmother is set to become the state's only female death row inmate after she was convicted this week of starving her 10-year-old stepdaughter to death.
A man who helped carry out the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. -- one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history -- was executed by injection on Wednesday evening in a Texas prison.
Florida prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against rapper YNW Melly in connection with the killing of two men.
Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow a woman who undergoes an abortion procedure to possibly be charged with capital murder -- a crime punishable by death in Texas.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will bar chaplains, ministers and spiritual advisers from execution chambers in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling last week that halted the execution of an inmate who sought to have his Buddhist spiritual adviser in the death chamber.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 5-4 decision against a death row inmate in Missouri who claimed that his execution by lethal injection would cause him "severe harm and suffering" because he suffers from a rare disease.
The Supreme Court sent a case concerning a death row inmate, who claims he can no longer remember his crimes because of several strokes he had while in prison, back down to the lower courts to take a second look.
A federal judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can seek the death penalty against a New York City terror suspect, despite a defense motion that cited tweets by President Trump advocating capital punishment in the case.
A year after Nikolas Cruz massacred 17 people and injured 17 others at his former high school in Florida, the question is not whether he's guilty -- he's confessed on video. It's does he live or die?
Saudi prosecutors said Thursday they would seek the death penalty for five people allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty for one of two men charged in the fatal shooting of a North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper during a traffic stop last month.
A Tennessee man who murdered two people in 1984 was executed Thursday, becoming the first inmate in the United States in five years to die in an electric chair.
The eight inmates on Washington's death row may never be executed.
