A Tuesday filing says Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

A Tennessee judge has set a February trial date for a man who faces the death penalty if convicted on charges of killing ...

A group of Philadelphia attorneys specializing in capital murder cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restrict ...

Travis Posey on Monday pleaded guilty in a Ouachita County courtroom to four counts of capital murder and 11 counts of attempted capital murder in the June 2024 mass shooting at the Mad Butcher ...

Although Nigeria is a signatory to ICCPR, which provides guidance on the application of the death penalty, it has yet to abolish ...

Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for ...

The Bombay High court on Monday outrightly rejected the findings of the special MCOCA court in the 7/11 serial train blast, which had awarded capital punishment to five accused and life imprisonment ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has thrown its weight behind the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control’s proposal seeking the death penalty for individuals found guilty of ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Teresa Youngblut's attorneys said the court was rushing the process that could determine whether or not the government could seek capital punishment in the case. The government opposed that ...