The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday repatriated three Americans accused of participating in a failed coup attempt against President Felix Tshisekedi in May 2024.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman officially reinstated the death penalty for the most serious crimes on Tuesday — though a state moratorium imposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 remains in effect.
South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die by firing squad on his execution date, March 7, 2025.
The jailing of Axel Rudakubana, who rushed into a children’s party and tried to kill everyone inside has triggered a debate on legal reform.
Jesuit Father James Martin asserted Tuesday that President Donald Trump is not “pro-life,” following the latter’s restoration of the death penalty on the federal level.
The rejection of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s revocation of 9/11 plea deals represents a “devastating betrayal” of grieving families.
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On Monday’s “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Legal Analyst Elliot Williams, who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Obama administration, said that while he thinks the death penalty should be abolished, President Joe Biden only commuted death sentences where the cases weren’t
President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row on Monday — including cold-blooded murderers who had killed entire families, and predators who had slaughtered innocent children.
Oklahoma has executed a man who admitted to sexually assaulting and killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a sick cannibalistic fantasy.
Texas prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the two illegal migrants accused of raping and killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.
Pope Francis has called on Christians to pray specifically for the inmates on death row in the United States, asking that their sentence may be commuted.
By a unanimous vote, the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee voted to subpoena a death row inmate in an apparent effort to delay the man’s execution. The committee voted to subpoena Robert Roberson, who is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in connection to a shaken baby death.
Her campaign refused to disclose whether Kamala Harris still opposes the death penalty, the third policy dodge in three days.
Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek the death penalty for 50 alleged coup plotters, including three Americans.
South Carolina will execute its first convict in over 13 years after pharmaceutical companies resumed supplying lethal injection drugs.
Several New York Republicans are calling for the death penalty to be reinstated for the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Imprisoned 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui fears he will be executed if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
A Belarusian human rights group said Friday that a German citizen has been sentenced to death for terrorism and other charges.
A Texas man convicted of abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing a woman in 2001 was executed via chemical injection on Wednesday.
Pope Francis congratulated California governor Gavin Newsom for his refusal to carry out the death penalty and for California’s leadership in fighting climate change, the governor’s office reported.
Dmitry Medvedev, the former president now better known for regularly threatening to drop nuclear bombs on the West says terror suspects must be liquidated.
The Arizona man accused of murdering a young woman on a Phoenix hiking trail in April shortly after his release from prison will get the death penalty if prosecutors get their way.
Former President Trump could face up to 76.5 years in the Georgia indictment, bringing the total state/federal potential to 717.5 years.
The mass shooter who murdered 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue will be spared of an execution despite a jury’s verdict to impose the death penalty due to President Joe Biden’s moratorium on the death penalty.
Alabama is seeking the death penalty for an illegal alien indicted for allegedly brutally murdering a young mother and her son.
A man is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter and strangling her to death with a cellphone charger.
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel that took place on Monday and was aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Special Report,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump argued that giving the death penalty to
A biological man convicted of raping and murdering a woman and child underwent “enormous suffering” after being denied state-provided transgender surgery prior to being executed, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is facing intense backlash for a tweet sympathizing with the killer that made no mention of his past crimes.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a Texas mother accused of stabbing three of her children to death and injuring two others.
Uganda’s parliament passed a bill criminalizing homosexuality on Tuesday, with 387 out of 389 legislators voting in favor. The bill stipulates the death penalty for defendants who commit acts of “aggravated homosexuality.”
Convicted New York City truck attack terrorist Sayfullo Saipov will not face the death penalty after a New York federal jury on Monday failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the death sentence.
A convicted murderer on death row in Florida used his last words to curse Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), the latter of whom has largely prioritized law and order in the Sunshine State.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is proposing raising the minimum penalty for particularly repugnant crimes, including child rape, as part of his greater pitch for “anti-crime” legislation, which his administration hopes to make a reality this legislative session.
The use of DNA to arrest Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four college students in Idaho reminds me that it’s time to bring the death penalty back in a big way.
The parents of murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves say her accused killer must pay for his actions.
A Philadelphia man who was cleared of wrongdoing for several murder cases after spending 25 years on death row was fatally shot while attending a funeral.
A California judge denied convicted murderer Scott Peterson a new trial for the 2002 Christmas Eve murders of his wife and unborn son.
A court run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday imposed the first death sentence against a member of the nationwide protest movement that took to the streets after the thuggish “morality police” killed a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab improperly.
Nine human rights organizations, led by the George-Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, have called on Pope Francis to press Bahrain to end its human rights abuses when he visits the country from November 3 to 6, 2022.
