Death Penalty News

By Wednesday afternoon, Judge Richard Baumgartner believes he will have a panel of Chattanooga jurors for a high profile double murder trial.

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to hold civilian trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed shocked many federal prosecutors, who say it's rare to win death sentences for foreign terrorists.

An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago was sentenced to life in prison.

A man who killed two teens and an elderly couple in the south Seattle suburb of Des Moines eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty.

This new AP article , which is headlined "Texas governor to decide condemned killer's fate," reports on a notable new death penalty development in Texas: The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery is in the hands of Gov.

A man who killed a South Carolina pawn shop owner, then fled to Canada to avoid the death penalty has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A death-penalty trial for two men - including a paranoid schizophrenic with an IQ of 61 - has been delayed, partly out of concerns that recent publicity could bias potential jurors.

In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.

Opening statements are scheduled today in the murder trial of a 37-year-old man accused of shooting an Indio cabbie in the head six years ago during a robbery.

A A A' Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying that a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions.

The prosecution and defense had picked the jury for the Dennis Lee Daniel capital murder case Tuesday afternoon in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.

In a story Nov. 14, The Associated Press reported that lethal injection is used by Ohio and 35 other states.

Republican lawmakers are hoping to force a debate in the Massachusetts Senate on a proposal to restore the death penalty in Massachusetts.

The state parole board on Tuesday rejected a plea of mercy from a man who killed a woman and scattered her body parts, clearing the way for him to become the first person in the nation executed with the injection of a single drug.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that those offended by the legal privileges being given to the professed mastermind of the Sept.

A man convicted of first-degree murder in the vicious beating of another inmate in Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail has been sentenced to death.

Skagit County prosecutors on Tuesday said they will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing six people and injuring four others in a shooting rampage near the town of Alger in 2008.

Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Five people have so far been sentenced to death and 81 have received jail terms in connection with post-election unrest in Iran.

The accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four of his accused accomplices will stand trial where they should have been tried in the first place - a civilian federal courthouse in Manhattan only blocks from the site of the World Trade Center.