Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Death penalty expert Robert Dunham has shared a new update on the state of capital punishment in the United States, tweeting ...

We here in the state of Oklahoma have an excellent judicial system, but regrettably, when it comes to the death penalty — the most terminal of all punishments — we don’t always get it right.

Among the defendants are some of the country’s most senior opposition ... defendants face either lengthy jail sentences or the death penalty. Executions have been effectively suspended in ...

A Catahoula Parish grand jury will seek the death penalty for Thomas S ... keeping her captive for several days as he drove across the country. He later shot Lexis four times and cut her throat ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — After hearing a historic challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty and the practice of death qualification, a Kansas trial court has issued a written order finding ...

Mangione’s indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, includes a charge of murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty. The indictment ...

Luigi Mangione's defense is asking a federal judge to throw out the possibility of the death penalty before Mangione is indicted on federal charges in the assassination of Brian Thompson ...

Texas Walmart Shooter Who Killed 23 Avoids Death Penalty by Pleading Guilty By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 23 people and injured 22 others in a 2019 mass shooting aimed at Latinos ...

Regardless, legal scholars, academic researchers and representatives of religious groups came from across the country to a courthouse in Wyandotte County to put the death penalty on trial.

Mangione Faces Federal Charges, Death Penalty in UnitedHealth Executive's Killing By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a ...