Death Penalty News

Ogden a Matthew David Stewart had lost hope. He faced the death penalty for the slaying of a police officer and had spent more than a year in the Weber County jail as court proceedings chugged along.

Twenty-two years ago, 10-year-old Christine McGowen was raped and murdered in her bed by a sex offender who sneaked into her northwest Orange County home.

The debate over the death penalty has been renewed by the national coverage given to Jodi Arias' murder conviction.

The brother of a Tomball man killed along a Brazos County stretch of highway has pleaded guilty to the capital murder and will spend the rest of his life in prison.

An accused Mexican drug cartel member has pleaded guilty in the killing and wounding of two U.S. agents in Mexico.

The same week Governor John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve to death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, FOX31 Denver has learned there could be a new death penalty case.

9, 2013 file photo shows Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking with the media in Phoenix.

William Zervakos tells The Associated Press jurors struggled with what they called a flawed system, explaining Arias wasn't "Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson." They thought it was unfair that 12 average Americans who aren't lawyers had to make such a crucial decision.

A Loudoun County Grand Jury for a second time on May 20 indicted Darwin Giovany Bowman on multiple charges, including two counts of capital murder.

Jodi Arias stands as the jury is excused after the verdict for sentencing was declared a hung jury for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Washington state officials ask drivers to avoid Interstate 5 near the area where a bridge collapsed over the Skagit River.

The California Supreme Court has affirmed the 1995 conviction and sentencing to death row of a man who kidnapped a woman from Valley Plaza mall, robbed her and then shot and killed her in a rural area two miles from Taft.

The dad who drowned his sons "because he wanted to be a father and thought that was being taken away" received the death penalty .

Dad who drowned sons sentenced: A report posted at The Inquisitr on May 23, 2013 says the Texas dad who drowned his sons in a creek has been sentenced to death.

VANCOUVER, Wash. Broken and bent knives were found inside his home. Dennis Wolter was covered in blood, from his boots to his baseball cap.

Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision this week to issue a temporary reprieve of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap's death penalty sentence has reinvigorated the Republican Party.

The attorney for David Renz wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution.

Williams is connected to the Dec. 11 shooting death of Deonte Malik Judkins, a 16-year-old Northern Vance High School student.

The Florida Supreme Court is forcing Olive and two others, against their will, to represent William Van Poyck, Van Poyck is scheduled to die June 12th.

A Maricopa County Court jury reconvened Thursday to continue deliberations that will determine whether Jodi Arias serves life in prison or is executed for killing her sometime lover five years ago.