The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long banned in the state.

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Two of the six federal counts can carry the death penalty, something federal prosecutors have not sought in a Minnesota-based case since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

DA to seek death penalty against Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect Chunli Zhao is accused of killing seven people in a January 2023 rampage at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms.

Following two state executions of death row inmates in less than six months, Gov. Mike Braun said June 3 that Indiana does not have any more of the drug used and he does not "intend to put another ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - San Mateo County's district attorney is seeking the death penalty for Chunli Zhao, 68, the Half Moon Bay shooting suspect. The deadly mass shooting was carried out on Jan ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

PHOENIX — The power to seek death is the greatest power we give prosecutors. But the process for selecting death penalty cases in Maricopa County is shrouded in secrecy. This video report is the ...