The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the death sentence of a man who was convicted of the brutal murder of a childhood friend, rejecting his request for leniency based on his claim that he did not touch the murder weapon.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a lawyer for a criminal defendant cannot ignore his client’s wish to maintain his innocence at trial, even if the lawyer’s aim is to avoid a death sentence.
Read moreFormer death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal is in court asking a judge to vacate his previous failed appeals attempts, so he can again appeal his case.
Read moreThe Supreme Court took up a capital case Monday involving a tumor-ridden man who was described by one prosecutor as a “homicidal energizer bunny.”
Read moreAlabama mail bomber Walter Moody, 83, became the oldest inmate put to death in modern U.S. history on Thursday night after the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the execution.
Read moreEgypt’s highest appeals court has upheld death sentences for four people over forming a “terrorist cell” to plot attacks on security forces and other institutions.
Read moreThe state of California wants to use unconstitutional rules to hide the most gruesome aspects of inmate executions from the public, three news outlets claim in a new lawsuit.
Read moreRidden with rare tumors, a man described by a prosecutor as a “homicidal energizer bunny” won his second stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday issued a memo to U.S. attorneys advising them to seek the death penalty for some drug traffickers, which was part of President Trump’s plan to combat the opioid epidemic released earlier this week.
Read moreThe Supreme Court opened a window Wednesday for a death-row prisoner in Texas to fund an investigation of his mental health history.
Read moreThirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. But when is uncertain. Such is the secrecy that surrounds Japan’s death penalty system.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Monday the nation “must get tough” with drug dealers, which includes utilizing the death penalty.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Arizona’s death penalty law that argued the state doesn’t sufficiently narrow eligibility for a death sentence.
Read moreGeorgia executed the so-called “stocking strangler” Thursday night. Carlton Gary was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized Columbus, Georgia four decades ago.
Read moreOklahoma officials announced Wednesday the end of a three-year-old moratorium on executions as they plan on using a first-of-its-kind nitrogen gas inhalation method to get around difficulties in getting lethal injection drugs.
Read moreCiting concern that her protest would adversely affect the appeal of a former client, a Mennonite woman has decided she will testify in a death-penalty case despite her religious beliefs against capital punishment.
Read moreA Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on terrorism charges, a spokesman said Thursday.
Read moreAfter years without the drugs to do lethal injections, the South Carolina Senate has agreed to require condemned inmates go to the electric chair instead.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court on Monday denied the appeal of a man accused of facilitating the murder of his wife and unborn son, keeping the former Marine on death row.
Read moreJustice Sonia Sotomayor spoke out Monday against the Supreme Court’s rejection of a death-row case she called “deeply unjust and unfair.”
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