The bill's author, Rep. Toni Rose, compared mental illness to other classes that are protected from the death penalty like juveniles and individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Tabler's execution came about an hour after Florida executed James Dennis Ford. Tabler was convicted of a 2004 double murder, ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

Each of the men have been given an extra three years, due to problems with the pharmaceutical supply chain, the release said.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Richard Tabler was executed Thursday for the murders of two men in 2004, which he confessed to, after years of going back and ...

During Thursday's general assembly session, three state senators introduced SB 94 with a short, direct title: Repeal Death ...

Seven dogs have died as the result of a fire Thursday to a detached shed on Wilmington Street in Norfolk, a fire-rescue official said.

There will be another competency evaluation for a Virginia Beach abduction suspect. A doctor said in court Thursday that Dana Plummer, accused of stabbing his ex-wife and stepdaughter before abducting ...

AG Pam Bondi Revives Death Penalty for Convicted Murderer** In a bold move, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized the transfer of convicted mur ...

The now 50-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife, the unborn child she was ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced that the federal government has agreed to transfer a convicted murderer to Oklahoma to be executed.