Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor announced Thursday he’s recommended the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.
Read moreA Texas appeals court granted a new trial Wednesday for a death-row inmate because his attorneys disregarded his claims of innocence and, convinced he was delusional, told a jury he had killed his wife and mother-in-law.
Read moreThree Supreme Court justices defended their votes Tuesday after the court rejected its 84th death-penalty case in recent weeks involving the same claim against Florida.
Read moreThe Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the claims of a man of death row who says his rare medical condition will make lethal injection severely painful under Missouri’s execution method.
Read moreCalling it “an accident waiting to happen,” the man who built Tennessee’s electric chair told Courthouse News that modifications made to the machine may not do an effective job in Thursday night’s planned execution of a double murderer.
Read moreAs the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday night for a Tennessee execution, Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered a stinging rebuke of bureaucratic complacency that she called out as cruel and immoral.
Read moreThe use of the death penalty is racially biased and therefore violates the Washington state Constitution, a unanimous panel of the Evergreen State’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreMalaysia’s new government said it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions, a rare move against capital punishment in Asia that human rights groups hailed Thursday as a major advance.
Read moreLast month a jury in Prince William County, Virginia convicted Ronald Hamilton of capital murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and a rookie police officer on her first shift.
Read moreA Bangladeshi court sentenced 19 people to death and the son of the opposition leader to life imprisonment on Wednesday over a deadly 2004 attack at a political rally held by current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Read moreThe fate of a man who murdered a police officer 33 years ago – but can no longer remember the crime nor understand why he received the death penalty – was weighed by justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday appealing the dismissal of a case that accused the Arizona Department of Corrections of concealing information about the state’s executions.
Read moreNearly a dozen rights groups on Tuesday condemned the passing of death sentences by an Egyptian court against 75 people, including top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, as the government of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi dueled with the U.N. and EU over the verdicts.
Read moreThe name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate’s execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreA divided Eighth Circuit panel declined Friday to hear the appeal of a gay man who several civil rights groups claim may have been wrongfully sentenced to death based on some jurors’ belief that he would enjoy life in prison with other men.
Read moreCounsel for a Texas death-row inmate who killed his wife and daughters in a cocaine-fueled rampage told the Fifth Circuit on Friday he needs funding for an investigation that could get his sentence reduced to life in prison.
Read moreIn the long-delayed prosecution of accused 9/11 bombers, a military judge threw out the statements Friday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others made to the FBI after they were tortured in CIA custody.
Read moreCalifornia cannot dodge a lawsuit claiming it enacted unconstitutional rules to hide the most gruesome parts of inmate executions from the public, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreWhen the heart of convicted double-murderer Carey Dean Moore stopped at 10:47 a.m. on this rainy Tuesday morning, the prolonged effort by Nebraska officials to execute a prisoner via lethal injection came to fruition.
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