Death Penalty News

A man was convicted of first-degree murder Monday in the vicious beating death of another inmate in Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail.

Virginia prosecutor Paul Ebert knows how to land the big ones. His office is lined with pictures of his adventures on the water - an 800-pound blue marlin hooked off the coast of Australia, a 260-pound halibut, citations for tuna and other trophies.

The 72-16 vote for U.S. District Judge Andre Davis gives Democratic nominees a 6-5 edge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals , which has been tough in death penalty cases , backed abortion restrictions and supported President George W. Bush's detainee policies.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who strangled and stabbed to death a man he met in a gay bar in 1985.

A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes.

Reporting from Washington - Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, then 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders.

China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said Monday, the first executions since the violence in July.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett goes on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF. Bennett was arrested in February and charged with illegally possessing arms to commit acts of terrorism, banditry and insurgency, ...

In 2005, Gary Glitter faced a death sentence in Vietnam. Tonight he faces it again, in a drama set in a fictionalised version of Britain where Parliament has just voted to restore the death penalty.

Opening statements are scheduled Monday in central Pennsylvania in the capital murder trial of a man accused of beating the 2-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend to death with a video game controller last year.

A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars.

There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed.

The Army psychiatrist suspected in Thursday's deadly Fort Hood rampage in Texas could get the death penalty if he is convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder - and military law experts say the evidence against him will be substantial.

Delaware prosecutors are appealing the reversal of a conviction and death sentence in the murder of a college student to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A man who is accused of killing his daughter near Desert Hot Springs, then wrapping the two-month-old in plastic and traveling around the country with the body before leaving the corpse in a camper in Arkansas, pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

Man gets life in prison for '08 killing DENTON - A 21-year-old man convicted in the 2008 killing of a customer at a Dallas smoke shop has been sentenced to life in prison.

The Alabama Supreme Court has told a lower court to take another look at a death penalty case from Jefferson County.

A trucker from Northern California has been given the death sentence for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.

A Sussex County Superior Court jury has recommended the death penalty for Emmett Taylor III, the man convicted late last week in the bludgeoning death of his fiancee just days before their planned 2007 wedding.