Death Penalty News

Sonia Sotomayor is a groundbreaking nominee for the Supreme Court who defies easy pigeonholing.

A man who shot the mother of their son nine times in front of the 7-year-old has been sentenced to life without parole.

A Bible taken from an Ohio victim who was shot and robbed during a multistate killing spree helped tie an Oregon trucker to the crime and send him back to a death penalty state.

President Barack Obama's concerted efforts to woo the Catholic Church - and its voters - get a lift Friday as he has his first face-to-face audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

Convicted serial rapist Tsediso Letsoenya was a dangerous criminal and a danger to society, it was contended in the Cape High Court on Monday.

Court documents show that prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a man accused of robbing and killing two North Carolina women in 2007 if he's convicted.

A judge has affirmed Washington state's procedures for executing prisoners by lethal injection, turning aside complaints that condemned inmates could be partially conscious when fatal drugs flow into their veins.

A prosecutor is asking for the death penalty for a Russellville woman convicted of capital murder in the arson death of her 6-year-old son.

TALLAHASSEE The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the conviction and death sentence in a 1994 Broward County robbery-slaying, meaning the defendant will go free.

CHESNEE a ' A South Carolina prosecutor wasted no time telling the suspect in the killing of an 8-year-old that he was seeking the death penalty.

A man accused of killing a television anchorwoman is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday, setting the stage of a possible death penalty case.

A Connecticut jury is to begin deliberating Friday on whether a Trumbull man should get the death penalty for killing his former lover, her 9-year-old daughter and his former roommate in Bridgeport three years ago.

Jury selection has gone into a second day for the first-degree murder trial of a Kingsport man in the death of his girlfriend's toddler.

Chandigarh, July 8 : The family members of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who is in a Pakistan jail facing death sentence, and a city-based NGO Wednesday said they have sent a petition to President Asif Ali Zardari to convert his death penalty into a life term.

A jury has convicted a north Alabama woman of capital murder in the death of her 6-year-old son, who died in a house fire last year.

For the first time, families of murder victims have joined with families of persons with mental illness who have been executed to speak out against the death penalty.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the penalty phase of an Escondido man convicted of torturing and murdering his girlfriend's 2-year-old boy after jurors deadlocked on his sentence.

This newarticle in the Washington Post , headlined "Va. Inmate's Lawyers Argue Double Jeopardy," raises the age-old question of whether bad facts often make for bad law.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - An Army sergeant accused of slaying his superior and another U.S. soldier in Iraq will face a court-martial and could be sentenced to death if convicted, the military said Tuesday.

India's top court has refused to replace hanging with lethal injection as the country's sole method of execution, saying there is no evidence it is less painful than other ways.