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Attorney General Eric Holder has said he is not a proponent of capital punishment. But by Oct. 3, he had authorized death penalty prosecutions at a pace comparable to that of his immediate predecessor.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for the 48-year-old former cleaning woman accused of kidnapping, drugging and killing a 73-year-old reclusive millionaire.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against any of the three men charged in the death of New Iberia gun shop owner Sidney Long Jr.
Reporters and photographers were allowed inside Ohio's death House Monday as state prison officials prepare to use a new method of lethal injection to execute a convicted killer next week.
The various articles on the death penalty (“Til death,” Nov. 30, 2009) miss the point. There are many practical reasons to revamp the capital punishment system in the United States. Lawmakers can make capital punishment work better, and at lower cost.
Denver prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Willie Clark, Shun Birch and Brian Hicks for the 2006 murder of witness Kalonniann Clark.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the death-penalty related motion to be argued .
It seems funny to me that those against the death penalty will ardently fight for the human rights of a murderer while ignoring the rights of a victim.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Lawyers for Caylee Anthony's mother say Florida's death penalty is unconstitutional and should be precluded as a potential sentence.
For the first time in 7 years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method.
By: Alan Burdziak International death penalty expert and trial lawyer Stephen B. Bright will deliver his lecture “The Right To Counsel in Death Penalty and Other Criminal Cases ...” Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m....
A 44-year-old Texas man was executed Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.
By steering clear of the hazy pitfalls of moral assertions and instead focusing on effectiveness, a better claim for abolishing the death penalty can be made.
Prison officials were moving forward with plans to execute a 44-year-old man Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he is too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Amnesty International urged China's Supreme Court to review the death sentences five people received stemming from violence following a crackdown in July.
WILMINGTON , Del. (AP)- Prosecutors are asking a Delaware jury to vote in favor of the death penalty for a man the panel convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a jealous rage.
