Death Penalty News

Eric Dewayne Cathey acknowledges dealing illegal drugs but insists he's no killer.

Barring any last minute legal barriers, Marco Allen Chapman will be executed Friday evening.

Facing the jury today, Senior Assistant Attorney General N. William Delker gripped the silver handgun used to kill Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs.

Posted by John Caniglia/Plain Dealer Reporter November 16, 2008 21:23PM A key witness in the arson that killed eight children and a woman is a longtime felon who suffers from psychiatric problems and has a ...

A man accused of killing his infant daughter in 2007 is expected to go on trial in 25th Judicial Court on capital murder charges.

The prosecution told jurors Wednesday that Brian Nichols will never stop plotting to escape, he will always be dangerous and that they need to neutralize him by sentencing him to death.

The federal government says it hasna t a oeflip-floppeda on its opposition to the death penalty by seeking a global ban on capital punishment after the execution of the three Bali bombers.

A request by the Illinois Attorney General's Office for an investigation into a lawyer's bills to a state death penalty defense fund is mired in concerns over conflicts of interest, and a lack of money.

Wed, November 12, 2008 Outraged a convicted killer is being released briefly from behind bars today, one justice advocate says the public has a right to know why David Shearing will be in their midst.

A Tulsa County jury convicted a Tulsa man for the second time on two counts of first-degree murder in the retrial of a 1999 double-homicide case.

Staring at the body sprawled on a parking lot, the police detective's mind flashed back to an unresolved killing a few months earlier.

A 30-year-old Baton Rouge man accused of stabbing his two young sons to death last month has been indicted on first-degree murder charges.

Indonesian firing squads killed three men for terrorism offences shortly after midnight this morning.

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has rejected an Alabama inmate's bid to overturn his death sentence for killing three people at a Gadsden Popeye's restaurant in 1994.

Fifty-one-year-old Glenn Howard Griffin was convicted of first-degree murder Friday.

A Yonkers man will spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally shooting an off-duty New York City police officer in the Bronx nearly three years ago.

Isaiah Howard's mother, his grandparents and nearly a dozen other family members wept during his killer's trial this week.

President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the right under President George W. ...