Death Penalty News

A man who is accused of killing his daughter near Desert Hot Springs, then wrapping the two-month-old in plastic and traveling around the country with the body before leaving the corpse in a camper in Arkansas, pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

Man gets life in prison for '08 killing DENTON - A 21-year-old man convicted in the 2008 killing of a customer at a Dallas smoke shop has been sentenced to life in prison.

The Alabama Supreme Court has told a lower court to take another look at a death penalty case from Jefferson County.

A trucker from Northern California has been given the death sentence for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.

A Sussex County Superior Court jury has recommended the death penalty for Emmett Taylor III, the man convicted late last week in the bludgeoning death of his fiancee just days before their planned 2007 wedding.

The husband of Michelle Lawrence wants her to face harsh punishment for her role in the attack that killed his fiancee, her unborn child and her 15-year-old son.

Ron McLain stood in a silent courtroom Wednesday afternoon, staring just a few feet away at the man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for the slaying of McLain's daughter last year.

The attorney for a Missouri man sentenced to death for a 1992 killing urged theMissouri Supreme Court on Thursday to spare his client, saying he is mentally disabled.

The so-called I-5 Strangler was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to six Northern California killings in an effort to avoid the death penalty.

A federal court has denied the appeal of a Georgia death row inmate who argued he received ineffective counsel at his trial.

A divided Nevada Supreme Court overturned the death sentence and ordered a new penalty hearing Wednesday for one of three men convicted of robbing and killing a paraplegic woman in Sparks.

A Mont Vernon legislator unveiled plans Tuesday to expand the death penalty to include home invasions by those who intend to kill.

Little Rock - The jury panel for a high-profile murder trial was reduced by one Wednesday after a juror said he could not vote for the death penalty.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday set two new execution dates even as the state continues to rework its procedures for putting condemned inmates to death by injection.

A convicted rapist who lived among 10 corpses was ordered held without bond Wednesday as investigators prepared to begin tearing apart walls inside the house in search of more evidence or bodies.

A former handyman convicted of killing seven employees at a suburban Chicago restaurant will be formally sentenced.

A lawmaker said Tuesday he was sponsoring legislation to make home invasion killings a capital offense and naming the bill after a Mont Vernon woman killed with a machete in her bed during a burglary.

Terrell Yarbrough was found guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide in the May 31, 1999 kidnap-slaying of Aaron Land, 20, of Philadelphia, and Brian Muha, 18, of Westerville, Ohio, at noon today in Washington County Common Pleas Court after approximately seven-and-a-half hours of jury ...

Popular television personality Anne Pressly never regained consciousness after she was found in her bed, brutally beaten by an intruder.