The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

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He admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the ...

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A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

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

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

A Philadelphia jury has convicted a suburban man of killing a Temple University police officer who chased him down as a ...

Jun. 19—A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines ...

This unlocated handout photo released by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office on June 15, 2025 shows Vance Boelter, the suspected killer of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker, as he was being ...