A federal jury in Boise, Idaho, decided today that a man convicted of killing four members of a northern Idaho family should be sentenced to death for kidnapping, torturing and…
Authorities in Hidalgo County, in the southern tip of Texas, reportedly have yet to arrest a woman indicted by a grand jury yesterday for first-degree murder in the death of…
A Texas death-row inmate who was sitting in a truck when his accomplice shot and killed a gas station cashier has failed to persuade a Texas pardons board to commute…
Having escaped the death penalty at almost the last minute in June, Charles Dean Hood has a good chance of actually meeting his maker on his next scheduled execution date…
Reportedly caught in his home in Kuwait with 22 pounds of cocaine and 165 pounds of hashish, Talal Nasser al Sabah was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death.
A retired Georgia judge who stepped down from the 2005 Atlanta courthouse killings case told an ABA panel today that prosecutors are partially to blame for high costs and delays…
Lawyers who have been serving as standby counsel for the man who killed an Idaho family so he could kidnap and sexually abuse two children are being compelled by a…
A Texas court has refused to stop the impending execution of a man whose case has spurred two rulings by the International Court of Justice requiring further review of his…
President George W. Bush has approved an Army request to put a private to death, giving the go-ahead to what would be the first execution by the U.S. military in…
Documents released by American Civil Liberties Union show undercover officers with the Maryland State Police spied on peace activists and groups opposing the death penalty.
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