Fourth District Judge Tony Graf on Monday set jury selection in the capital murder trial of Tyler Robinson for June 21, 2028, rejecting the accused Charlie Kirk assassin’s request to push the case into the third quarter of 2029.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Americas Newsroom,” Marc Klaas, father of 12-year-old murder victim Polly Klaas, reacted to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) announcement to commute all 548 death sentences in the state to life without parole is “absolutely heartbreaking.” Klaas
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted all the death sentences in the state to life in prison without parole because “He was locked
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced he will commute the death sentences of all 548 prisoners on the state’s death row to life without the possibility of parole, according to an open letter to Californians.
South Korean Special Prosecutor Cho Eun-suk on Thursday demanded the death penalty for former president Yeon Suk-yeol, who touched off a national crisis by declaring martial law in December 2024.
A 63-year-old prisoner is set to be executed Tuesday in Florida for killing his cellmate, which he did so that he could be sentenced to death.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of all pastoral services to Catholics serving in the U.S. military, said that his fellow churchmen cannot participate in the upcoming firing squad of Nidal Hasan.
Lawyers for Tennessee murderer Christa Pike said she has been released from the hospital after her recent lethal injection in the death chamber failed to kill her.
VP JD Vance said Friday he won’t watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s live-streamed execution and doubts the broadcast will happen.
Convicted murderer Christa Pike has reportedly regained consciousness and can now speak following her botched execution.
Convicted Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad for the November 5, 2009, mass shooting that left 13 dead and numerous others wounded as he shouted “allahu akbar” in committing the atrocity.
Christa Pike is in critical condition after she survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital as part of her sentence.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in the hospital after efforts to execute her by two lethal injections failed on Wednesday night.
The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years was granted a stay by a federal appeals court just over an hour before her scheduled execution and after witnesses had gathered at the Nashville prison for the event.
President Donald Trump touted Friday an executive order he signed directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty for anyone convicted of killing a police officer.
A bill to bring the death penalty back to Washington, DC for the first time in over four decades has been introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who told Breitbart News there should be “no second chances” for people who are convicted of the most heinous crimes.
The Fourth Criminal Court in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday sentenced former dictator Bashar Assad to death in absentia for “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” perpetrated during the brutal 14-year civil war he waged to stay in power, with copious assistance from his patrons in Iran and Russia.
Tyler Robinson’s alleged confession letter to his trans lover was mistakenly shown in court on Thursday, despite Judge Tony Graf ruling it could not be displayed.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) detailed Thursday what he called “absolutely compelling” and “damning” confession evidence admitted against Tyler Robinson.
A Utah judge has denied assassination suspect Tyler Robinson’s request to remove the death penalty from the Charlie Kirk murder case.
In the wake of the murder of an 11-year-old girl that shocked the nation, seven in ten people in France believe that there should be a national referendum to decide whether or not the country should reinstate the death penalty for crimes against children.
Jurors heard the audio and video recordings of the 2022 murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand in a Texas courtroom on Thursday.
Two European non-governmental organizations (NGOs) published a report this week that found Iran conducted 1,639 executions in 2025 — an increase of 68 percent over the previous year, and the largest number of executions since 1989.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is authorizing the death penalty to be used against two MS-13 gang members who are accused of murdering a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant.
The former FedEx driver who admitted murdering a 7-year-old girl in Paradise, Texas, told investigators he “tossed” her body into the woods.
Details have emerged in the case of a former NFL player accused of beating his girlfriend to death earlier this month.
The Afghan national charged in connection with the November 26, 2025, D.C. National Guard shooting pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.
The defense team for the FedEx driver accused of murdering a seven-year-old Texas girl claim the suspect has autism and should therefore not face the death penalty.
The Florida man who abandoned a five-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in November of 1998 may again face a death sentence.
Officials are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of stabbing a woman to death outside a Dollar General store in Fruitland, Florida.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of attacking two National Guardsmen shot in the nation’s capital the day before Thanksgiving.
A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend for refusing to abort their unborn son now faces the death penalty for double homicide.
A Florida man has been found guilty of shooting and killing his pregnant girlfriend, who refused to get an abortion.
The court hearing for the man accused of stabbing a Ukrainian woman to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, will not happen until next year.
South Carolina’s attorney general has demanded a controversial local prosecutor must seek the death penalty against the career criminal charged with killing 22-year-old Logan Federico after the suspect was allowed to roam free despite 39 previous arrests and 25 felony charges.
The execution date has been set for Christa Pike, Tennessee’s only female prisoner on death row, according to reports.
Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of firearm, and two counts of obstruction of justice.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will seek the death penalty as punishment for murders committed in the nation’s capital.
Two lawmakers in Alabama want the death penalty in child rape cases after authorities arrested several people for allegedly abusing children in an “underground bunker.”
A 21-year-old woman facing the death penalty, after being charged in the January fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, is seeking a six-month delay in the government’s capital punishment decision.
