The court ruled in 1972 that the death penalty system was unconstitutional because it was being applied in an arbitrary manner. The decision lead to a temporary moratorium, until the court ...

Supreme Court pivots to abortion, guns, and death penalty as public approval slides . Justices face one of the most consequential terms in years, analysts say.

The death penalty reared its head again at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. It was the first time the court publicly considered a death case since last term, when a constitutional challenge to ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices are photographed April 20, 1972, two months before the court's decision in the death penalty case Furman v. Georgia.

The post–Anthony Kennedy Supreme Court majority has introduced itself to the nation by strapping itself to the decaying corpse of the American death penalty. It is a curious choice. Capital ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would not allow the Trump administration to resume executions in federal death penalty cases after a 16-year hiatus.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is sending a message to states that want to continue to carry out the death penalty: Inmates must be allowed to have a spiritual advisor by their side as they are ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – In a high-profile death penalty case, the Supreme Court is weighing whether to throw out the murder conviction of an Oklahoma death row inmate. The state’s appeals court ...