Death Penalty News

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - A paperwork mistake led to a murder suspect awaiting a mental evaluation to sit for months in the Benton County Jail without the Arkansas State Hospital being notified of the evaluation request.

"Each of us remains a staunch Republican conservative, but our perspectives on the death penalty have changed.... Each of us, independently, has concluded that the death penalty isn't working for California." The authors of California's Death Penalty Act of 1978, which expanded use of the death penalty in the state, have publicly endorsed the SAFE ... (more)

The status of a dozen Ohio executions scheduled over the next two years was uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to allow a temporary delay in capital punishment to stay in place.

Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad.

With both killers in the Cheshire home invasion facing death row, legislation may now come forward that would abolish the death penalty in Connecticut for future crimes.

A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.

This week's sentencing of the prisoner convicted of killing a correctional officer will be the first case in Maryland in which prosecutors must establish a DNA "link" in order to pursue a death sentence, and it could become the first real test for the state's new capital punishment law.

Attorneys for David Westerfield have filed an appeal of his death penalty conviction, according to a 450-page legal brief filed in California Supreme Court and obtained this week by 10News.

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Utah prosecutors have reluctantly allowed a condemned killer to seek execution by firing squad rather than by lethal injection, saying they want to avoid further delays in putting him to death.

CTV Ottawa's Carol Anne Meehan is thanking members of the public for their support after her husband was found dead a week and a half ago.

TV reports that the jury clerk will send out more than 2,500 jury summons in the death penalty phase of the Michael Astorga case.

Prosecutors are considering whether to seek the death penalty against three suspects in a Douglas County murder-for-hire plot after the three men pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges Friday.

UPDATE : Police are looking for three people in connection with a shooting at the Regency Mal.. The gunfire sent a female employee to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Three men have been jailed after becoming the first to be convicted of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation for handing out a leaflet calling for gay people to be executed.

Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: In a major development, the Bombay High Court on Friday upheld the death sentences awarded to three Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists in connection with the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai, which left at least 57 people dead.

A House committee examining whether North Carolina laws should change based on evidence of racial bias in death penalty cases is holding its first meeting.

A federal judge has again delayed the death penalty trial of a twice-convicted killer who's charged with killing a couple from Hendersonville in a national forest.

Prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty against a 19-year-old accused of killing a Lakeland police officer.

The third inmate involved in the killing of Officer Ronald Johnson will spend the rest of his life behind bars.