The Supreme Court, through several recent rulings, is showing its impatience with arguments being made by death row inmates by rejecting their petitions for relief from their sentences. Just a week ago, the court had…
Marc Fucarile, who was nearly killed by the second bomb explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon, Tuesday insisted to Newsmax the Supreme Court must agree to reinstate the death penalty for convicted terrorist bomber Dzhokhar…
A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges, and a prosecutor filed notice that she’ll also…
Lawmakers in Virginia voted on Friday to make it the first Southern U.S. state to abolish the death penalty, a significant sign of waning support for capital punishment across the country as the practice is…
“If they die, fast trial death penalty for the killer,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Only way to stop this!”
President Donald Trump on Sunday demanded the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a federal appeals court ruled to overturn his death sentence.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission slapped former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday with the highest ethics penalty for his use of a corporate jet and Maserati limo.
Lesbian couple facing death penalty in Saudi Arabia declare love for each other live on TV… (Third column, 5th story, link)
Uganda plans bill imposing death penalty for gay sex… (Third column, 22nd story, link)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg opposes the death penalty for prisoners, even if that prisoner happens to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
Texas prosecutors will seek the death penalty against an accused illegal alien serial killer who has been charged with murdering 12 senior citizens and accused of murdering seven others.
Former Vice President Joe Biden may now be opposed to the death penalty, but his decades-long advocacy in favor of capital punishment is taking center stage as the Department of Justice (DOJ) readies the execution…
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said Thursday that she will introduce a bill banning the federal death penalty in response to the Justice Department’s announcement regarding the policy.
An illegal alien gang member accused of murdering 21-year-old Grant Ronnebeck in January 2015 has been deemed ineligible for the death penalty due to his “intellectual disability.”
The Supreme Court added five new cases to its term for fall 2019, including racial discrimination, the environment, the death penalty, and international child abduction. On the same day, the Court refused to dive into…