Death Penalty News

Curtis McCarty regains his freedom in May 2007 after more than 21 years in prison, almost all of it on Oklahoma's death row.

The drama continues to mount as to whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will ask her jury to give her the death penalty tomorrow , according to Headline News , which has broadcast every question and objection of the trial since opening statements on Jan.

Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Jurors return to federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday to hear arguments and evidence on whether a drug dealer convicted in the deaths of a dozen people should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed three active death warrants in recent weeks, the most any governor has signed in more than two decades.

One of the last people seated in the witness box at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial was a character witness for a co-defendant, and had nothing to do with Gosnell's abortion clinic.

The playfully alliterative headline for this post is spurred by this lengthy and effective local piece headlined "The Kansas death penalty has cobwebs." Here are excerpts: It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring.

But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been exonerated and freed from death row in the previous 23 years, Ryan committed an act of profound moral courage, imposing a moratorium on capital punishment.

After a U-turn by the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi government on the death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani and nine others, convicted in 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, the SIT has decided to seek Supreme Court's guidance on the issue.

DeShawn Leon Green has avoided Death Row for a second time. But prosecutors will have one more chance to execute him.

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After the Oregon Supreme Court threw out their aggravated murder convictions, two men pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to first-degree manslaughter in the 2005 death of Jessie Mary Valero, fatally stabbed in her Hillsboro apartment.

A BRITISH woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said.

Willie Jerome Manning, who won a stay of execution in one capital case, is waiting to hear whether an Oktibbeha County judge agrees with his claim that he was denied a fair trial in 1996 when he was sentenced to death for the slayings of 2 elderly women.

The campaign to either save Nathan Dunlap from the death penalty or execute the man convicted of four brutal murders at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993 has turned into something of a public-relations competition.

Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington State Reformatory, but he will face the same security measures as the other eight death row inmates at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Zoa White suffered a fatal beating inside her home in June 2010. A jury in Thursday, May 16, 2013, found Carlos Edward Kennedy guilty of capital murder.

Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a separation from his wife, nightmares.

How many Ohio businesses run their operations with little regard for the expenditure of time and money? Ohio ignores both every time it sends an inmate to death row.

A Philadelphia doctor found guilty of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic serving low-income women agreed to two life sentences Tuesday, and was sentenced to a third Wednesday.