An Arkansas judge whose participation in a 2017 anti-death penalty rally led to his lifetime ban from hearing capital-punishment cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restore his ability to hear cases involving the death penalty.
Read moreJurors deliberated less than 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict Monday at the federal death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois doctoral student who killed a visiting scholar from China after abducting her at a bus stop as she headed to sign an off-campus apartment lease.
Read moreA report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union blasted Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, finding she has only secured death penalty convictions against people of color since taking office in 2012.
Read moreA South Carolina father who killed his five children with his own hands, then drove around with their bodies for nine days was sentenced to death Thursday.
Read moreAs a federal prosecutor on Wednesday shared with jurors grisly details of how authorities claim a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped a visiting scholar from China, then beat her to death with a baseball bat, defense attorneys intent on sparing their client a possible death penalty offered an exceptional claim: He did it.
Read moreOpening statements are set for Wednesday in the death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois graduate student charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting Chinese scholar, a case closely watched by Chinese students across the U.S.
Read moreThe Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a convicted double-murderer’s appeal of his death sentence and decide whether Arizona’s high court should have applied current law when reviewing mitigating and aggravating evidence in the decades-old case.
Read moreJust barely reaching the two-thirds vote to override their governor’s veto, lawmakers made New Hampshire the 21st state on Thursday to abolish the death penalty.
Read moreA serial killer who terrorized Florida with a murder spree that claimed 10 women in 1984 was put to death Thursday, his execution witnessed by a woman who survived one of his attacks and aided in his capture.
Read moreOverriding a veto by the state’s Republican governor, the New Hampshire House voted 247-123 on Thursday to advance bill banning the death penalty.
Read moreCindy Brown remembers when she decided to divorce Bobby Joe Long, the serial killer facing execution Thursday as a result of a murderous spree that claimed 10 women’s lives and terrorized Florida’s Tampa Bay area in 1984.
Read moreRipping his Supreme Court colleagues for halting the March execution of a Texas man on religious liberty grounds as “seriously wrong,” Justice Samuel Alito issued a new rebuke on Monday blaming attorney tactics for the last-minute reprieve, which he said “invites abuse.”
Read moreRevisiting a case whose handling prompted a scathing dissent last month from Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court declined any further action Monday in the plan to execute Christopher Lee Price in Alabama.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit upheld a ruling Friday in favor of Virginia death row inmates, finding that their living conditions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
Read moreVicente Benavides Figueroa claims in a federal complaint that false evidence, conspiracy and other misbehavior by Kern County and Delano city officials caused him to spend 25 years on California’s death row for a murder he did not commit.
Read moreAn avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., who was black.
Read moreA federal lawsuit filed by death row inmates has renewed a court fight over whether the sedative Arkansas uses for lethal injections causes torturous executions, two years after the state raced to put eight convicted killers to death in 11 days before a previous batch of the drug expired.
Read moreThai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner, who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws. They could faith the death penalty.
Read moreUnable to muster enough votes Friday, the Supreme Court’s liberal minority signed onto a biting dissent that shows an increasing division on death-penalty cases at the court.
Read moreAn Alabama inmate convicted in the 1991 sword-and-dagger slaying of a pastor was spared a lethal injection when his death warrant expired before a divided U.S. Supreme Court voted early Friday to let the execution proceed.
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