Death Penalty News

Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision this week to issue a temporary reprieve of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap's death penalty sentence has reinvigorated the Republican Party.

The attorney for David Renz wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution.

Williams is connected to the Dec. 11 shooting death of Deonte Malik Judkins, a 16-year-old Northern Vance High School student.

The Florida Supreme Court is forcing Olive and two others, against their will, to represent William Van Poyck, Van Poyck is scheduled to die June 12th.

A Maricopa County Court jury reconvened Thursday to continue deliberations that will determine whether Jodi Arias serves life in prison or is executed for killing her sometime lover five years ago.

WHY don't we just call it death? Or more apt, just plain murder? Let's stop with the cutesy legalese "death penalty," as if the verdict came from a legitimate court.

A military court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced a Palestinian Authority resident to death for collaborating with Israel and another to life with hard labor, the Hamas interior ministry said on Thursday, according to the AFP news agency, The 43-year-old, identified only by his initials AH, "has been sentenced to capital punishment for acts of ... (more)

Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid the death penalty for their client.

But Ron Waterman, lead counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, is gaining confidence that his lawsuit challenging the way the state carries out its executions could end up with a positive ending for Ronald Smith.

Convicted murderer Nathan J. Dunlap got a temporary reprieve from the death penalty, as Colorado Gov.

Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday on whether Naim Rasool Muhammad should receive the death penalty or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

A trial is supposed to be a search for the truth. That can never be more important than in a death penalty case, when someone's life is at stake.

An Idaho prosecutor says he won't seek the death penalty when Lacey Mark Sivak is resentenced this fall.

The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting rampage.

The attorney for a man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother in an upstate New York carjacking wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution.

The governor of Colorado on Wednesday indefinitely delayed the execution of a man convicted of killing four people, citing doubts about the death penalty.

Jodi Arias says she doesn't want to die and that she has resisted suicidal urges for her family's sake.

Kenneth Justus, a death-row inmate at Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, was found dead in his cell Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Dr. Lillian Glass says Arias came off as arrogant and entitled in an Arizona courtroom today.

The man charged in murdering four people in Fernley, and a fifth person in Mustang appeared in court for a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday.