Death Penalty News

The Chester County District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty for a murder suspect who announced his plans to kill his girlfriend on Facebook.

Bill Pelke , An anti-death penalty advocate. On May 14, 1985, his grandmother Ruth Pelke was murdered by then 15-year-old Paula Cooper.

Defense attorneys are seeking to avoid the death penalty for one of two men charged in the killing of a Montana high school teacher because they say the suspect is mentally disabled.

MOLLY BARTELS / Courier & Press It took a Clark County jury less than two hours to find Jeffrey Weisheit guilty of setting a house fire that killed two Evansville children.

The Marion County District Attorney's Office may seek the death penalty for David Ray Bartol, an inmate accused of stabbing another inmate to death with a homemade knife.

Following an extensive defense investigation that has included the review of hundreds of thousands of Bureau of Prisons records, attorneys for inmates Joseph Cabrera Sablan and James Ninete Leon Guerrero say separate trials are necessary to ensure each gets a fair shake.

Jury selection will start later in July if a jury consultant hired for Hasan's defense is unavailable.

A North Carolina judge ruled last year that Marcus Robinson s trial was so tainted by the racially-influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence.

A North Carolina judge ruled last year that Marcus Robinson s trial was so tainted by the racially-influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence.

The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty against a man charged in the murder of an 84-year old Tulsa woman.

As the son of a murder victim, Topekan Bill Lucero knows the pain of losing a loved one through violence.

Nancy had also been raped. Yesterday media reports confirmed that the Tulsa District Attorney's office will not seek the death penalty in the case due to Woodfork's IQ.

Accused serial killer Joseph Naso, left, talks with his legal adviser Pedro Oliveros as the prosecution made their opening statements in Marin Superior Court in front of Judge Andrew Sweet on Monday, June 17, 2013, in San Rafael, Calif.

The odds of passing a driver's test for a Class D license might depend in part on where the test is taken and who gives the exam, a Tulsa World analysis of exam data shows.

A southeast Kansas man could face the death penalty after being convicted of murdering three of his relatives at their home in west-central Missouri.

Lawyers in the case of a Vermont man facing the federal death penalty on charges he sexually assaulted and killed his niece five years ago were given another week Monday to agree on jury-selection procedures for the trial set for later this year.

It's been more than five years since the brutal crime happened. Now, federal authorities have added Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara to the ten most wanted fugitive list.

In Tallahassee, each of the governors average about two executions per year during their years in office.

Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston talks to Carlos Kennedy during a hearing Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

Paula Cooper, once a teen on Indiana's death row, was released from prison on Monday, June 17. She spent 27 years behind bars for stabbing a 78-year-old Bible teacher Ruth Pelke in the stomach and chest 33 times.