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The state of Virginia is scheduled to execute John Allen Muhammad via lethal injection on Nov. 10 for the 2002 murder of Dean Harold Meyers, one of 10 killings during a a three-week rampage around the Washington, D.C. area
Russia's Constitutional Court held hearings Monday on whether a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force next year.
Kentucky is spending millions of dollars each year on a capital-punishment system so ineffective that more death-row inmates are dying of natural causes than are being executed.
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly against capital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponents by urging the US Supreme Court to limit federal review of state court decisions, which opponents say could make it harder for defendants on death row to challenge their sentences.
A Pima County jury has decided a 59-year-old Tucson man is eligible for the death penalty, and defense attorneys will begin presenting evidence today that is intended to save his life.
A new poll shows Virginians are broadly in favor of the death penalty for those convicted of murder.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who killed and mutilated a man he met in a gay bar in 1985, rejecting a claim that his lawyers erred during the sentencing phase of his trial.
Testimony is expected to begin later this week in the death penalty trial of a man accused of murdering a pizza delivery driver.
In Seattle, prosecutors are weighing the death penalty for a man accused of killing a police officer on Halloween. Police say they found homemade bombs in the suspect's apartment, and they're calling this a case of "domestic terrorism."
If history is any judge, the Army will find it difficult to impose the death penalty on the accused killer in the bloodiest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history.
PERRY — Houston County District Attorney Kelly Burke said Monday that he is seeking the death penalty for two Eatonton men accused of slaying a Warner Robins man for his car in 2008.
CROWN POINT | A judge ordered a 42-year-old Gary man to stand trial early next year on death penalty murder charges that he killed his wife and two children.
The Houston County District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty for two men accused of the murder of a Warner Robins man. Joshua Dupree Rounsoville and Stewart Calvin Brannon plead guilty during an arraignment in Houston Superior Court for the murder of Mario Smith on August 23, 2008.
Houston County District Attorney Kelly Burke said today that he is seeking the death penalty for two Eatonton men accused of slaying a Warner Robins man for his car in 2008.
The nation's top court has overruled an appeals court decision and reinstated the death penalty against a Sharonville man.
