Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Nearly all the defendants face either lengthy jail sentences or the death penalty. Executions have been effectively suspended in Tunisia since 1991, despite judges handing down the sentence.

there’s one Louisianan who’s been leading the charge against the death penalty for generations. Sister Helen Prejean is a Catholic religious leader and author of several books, including ...

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The indictment ...

The charges allow federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case, and add to existing counts against Mangione. Prosecutors have already charged Mangione with 11 other counts ...

Mangione’s indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, includes a charge of murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty. The indictment ...

BANJUL, April 16 (Reuters) - Gambia's Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a government minister convicted of killing the finance minister to life in prison, one of few to be convicted ...

Serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi's expressed desire to be executed quickly moved a step closer Jan. 5 as his death sentence was finalized following the expiry of the deadline to file an appeal.

However, on June 8, 2017, the Court of Appeal imposed the death penalty after allowing the prosecution’s appeal. Subsequently, the Federal Court also upheld the death penalty on Jan 15, 2018.

The attorneys claim that Bondi's use of a slogan popularized by her boss, President Donald Trump, in her statement shows that her motivation to seek the death penalty is political. They also ...

Federal prosecutors might find themselves in the same situation with Mangione, Lain said, who has written a book on lethal injection, as it can take a federal death penalty case at least two ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has urged President Prabowo Subianto to abolish the death penalty in the revision of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.