Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Originally from Pennsylvania, Kohberger was a Washington State University Ph.D. student of criminology who lived just 10 ...

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Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...