Death Penalty News

DeShawn Leon Green has avoided Death Row for a second time. But prosecutors will have one more chance to execute him.

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After the Oregon Supreme Court threw out their aggravated murder convictions, two men pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to first-degree manslaughter in the 2005 death of Jessie Mary Valero, fatally stabbed in her Hillsboro apartment.

A BRITISH woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said.

Willie Jerome Manning, who won a stay of execution in one capital case, is waiting to hear whether an Oktibbeha County judge agrees with his claim that he was denied a fair trial in 1996 when he was sentenced to death for the slayings of 2 elderly women.

The campaign to either save Nathan Dunlap from the death penalty or execute the man convicted of four brutal murders at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993 has turned into something of a public-relations competition.

Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington State Reformatory, but he will face the same security measures as the other eight death row inmates at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Zoa White suffered a fatal beating inside her home in June 2010. A jury in Thursday, May 16, 2013, found Carlos Edward Kennedy guilty of capital murder.

Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a separation from his wife, nightmares.

How many Ohio businesses run their operations with little regard for the expenditure of time and money? Ohio ignores both every time it sends an inmate to death row.

A Philadelphia doctor found guilty of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic serving low-income women agreed to two life sentences Tuesday, and was sentenced to a third Wednesday.

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq, one of the worst cases of violence by an American soldier against other U.S. troops.

Two former death row inmates who have since been exonerated urged Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday to veto legislation that would expedite the state's capital punishment process, worrying it will condemn some innocent people to death.

Senators supporting a bill to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole failed to muster enough votes to overcome a filibuster Tuesday.

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Naim Rasool Muhammad, 34, was found guilty of killing 5-year-old Naim and 3-year-old Elijah in August 2011.

Jodi Arias returns to court for the final phase of her trial as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial Wednesday ruled that the murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander was "especially cruel," an aggravating factor that will send the case to the death penalty phase beginning Thursday.

The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive.

A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials.