"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

Michael James Jackson, the man identified as the ringleader in the grim 2005 "buried alive" murders of a Jacksonville couple, has lost his bid to escape death row. Earlier this month, the Florida ...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach stated the governor cannot refuse to extradite fugitives to states with the death penalty. Gov. Laura Kelly's office said it did not request a formal opinion.

Marcus Spanevelo was federally indicted with kidnapping resulting in death of Cassie Carli after a 2022 custody exchange Spanevelo's defense team says other cases were successful in striking the death ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for the Israeli embassy, a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, a ...

(WHTM)– More than 20 states have banned the death penalty, yet Pennsylvania hasn’t. The question of whether the commonwealth should abolish it is once again gaining traction in Harrisburg with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to a new report, the family believes that the 32-year-old's alleged actions were all due to him being mentally unstable ...

Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, has died by suicide. He was 26, according to his family. Metayer was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a push from the Trump administration. By Eduardo Medina Two days before ...

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione on Friday renewed and expanded their effort to have the death penalty thrown out in his case, arguing Attorney General Pam Bondi has a disqualifying financial conflict of ...

His attorneys argued Pam Bondi did not disclose prior ties to UnitedHealthcare. Attorneys for Luigi Mangione are arguing the death penalty should be suspended from his federal murder case due to ...

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as ...