Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

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

Sarah Milgrim’s father speaks out after her fatal shooting outside a D.C. museum. The suspect remains in custody.

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

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

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Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...