Whether the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students can be punished with the death penalty if convicted will be the focus of a planned hearing Thursday.

Kohberger, 29, is facing four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. He is accused of fatally ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is back in court Thursday as his lawyers argue to take the death penalty off the table, claiming he would face an ...

The defense plans to call two expert witnesses at the hearing — forensic pathologist Dr. Barbara Wolf and University of Idaho law professor Aliza Cover, whose research has examined capital punishment ...

Two ongoing death penalty cases once again have revived a divide in this country over the effectiveness of trading one life ...

Matt Mangino, former Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, district attorney and expert on capital punishment, says Bryan Kohberger's defense is facing an uphill battle in their fight to have the death ...

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling.

South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...