There is an apparent contrast in the public response to the cases of Karmelo Anthony and Dylann Roof, as Anthony has received support from activists, commentators, and elected officials following his murder conviction and 35-year sentence for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, while Roof was sentenced to death in 2017 for murdering nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
Tanner Horner, the man who admitted he brutally murdered seven-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas, has been sentenced to death.
A convicted serial rapist and murderer is waiting to be executed in Oklahoma after his actions devastated several families.
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.
Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes by a military court in Kinshasa on Tuesday.
Much has been made of the Wall Street Journal’s report that Joe Biden has been mentally diminished since the beginning of his presidency. His commutation of the death sentences of 37 prisoners last Monday proves he’s still in charge and the vile, calculating bastard he’s been his entire political career.
A convicted killer has asked to go free after President Joe Biden commuted his death sentence to life in prison without parole.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are begging President Joe Biden, set to leave office next month, to commute the death sentences of 40 federal inmates, which includes one of the Boston Marathon bombers, child killers, mass shooters, and those convicted for brutally murdering women.
Wade Wilson, known as Florida’s “Deadpool killer” due to sharing a name with the Marvel character, has been sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of two women, Fox News reported.
A man was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of his teenage daughter in Monroe, North Carolina.
A court in eastern China’s Ningbo city sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death on Thursday for the intentional homicide of his former girlfriend, a 21-year-old Chinese citizen, in June 2021, the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) reported.
The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber now-28-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N. staff members in March 2017, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting the trial’s prosecutors suggested local militiamen carried out the murders “to take revenge against the UN” for allegedly “failing to prevent attacks against them by the [D.R. Congo] army.”
A trial court in northern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city sentenced a 26-year-old Muslim woman to death on Wednesday for blasphemy against Islam after finding her guilty of “sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives.”
A Pakistani district judge sentenced Zafar Bhatti, Pakistan’s longest-serving blasphemy convict, to death on Monday, the British Asian Christian Association reported on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of the United States will ultimately decide whether to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
A Chinese court on Wednesday rejected Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s appeal of his death sentence, imposed in January 2019 after Canada arrested Huawei Chief Financial Officer and Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States.
Indonesia has sentenced nearly 100 people to death over Zoom and other internet video applications over the past year, according to a report published this week by Amnesty International.
One of the four men due to be executed this week for fatally gang-raping a female student in Delhi, India, in 2012 is begging for mercy, claiming he was raped in prison.
BAGHDAD – Iraq executed a dozen death row jihadists on the order of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, his office said Friday, in retaliation for the Islamic State group’s murder of eight captives.
An illegal alien convicted of killing two Sacramento-area deputies smirked as a California jury sentenced him to death Tuesday—and the deputies’ families grinned back at him.
Five dogs in Fresno County have been sentenced to death after they were found responsible for the deaths of two California men last year.
Egypt’s top court upheld death sentences for 10 men on Tuesday for their part in Egypt’s worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in February 2012.
Egypt’s Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a death sentence against deposed President Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial.
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) spiritual leader and 35 other members of the terrorist-designated Islamist group to life in prison Monday for acts of violence linked to the army’s removal of Egypt’s former president, according to state-run news outlets.
48-year-old Huang Yu, a computer technician in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China, has been sentenced to death for leaking over 150,000 classified documents to an unspecified foreign spy agency, according to Chinese state television.
The Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a local woman to death for murdering an American teacher in December. She stabbed Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan to death in the bathroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall.
Former lawyer and ex-judge Eric Williams, who was accused of the brutal murders of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, and an assistant prosecutor, was sentenced to death by a jury on December 17. Texas Lawyer reported that
