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

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

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

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

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, ...

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

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

In Delhi's Ashok Nagar, a 19-year-old woman died. She was allegedly pushed from her rooftop. The suspect, known to the victim ...

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Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...