This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.

In the appeal, Greeshma has argued that the trial court’s verdict was flawed, citing errors in evidence assessment and legal ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, a Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas pastor in his church during a robbery over a decade ago, was executed Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in ...