The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

Lawyers also attempting to throw out two federal charges, saying US attorney general has ties to UnitedHealth Group

The ‘very person’ empowered to seek Mangione’s death ‘has a financial stake in the case she is prosecuting,’ his lawyers wrote

Nick Reiner, son of filmmaker Rob Reiner, has been charged with murdering his parents in their Brentwood home. The case could carry the death penalty as authorities investigate the shocking killings.

Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's accused killer, made his first appearance in person in 4th District Courthouse on Thursday, with a matter-of-fact smile in a highly media-frenzied trial.

In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has taken a step toward reinstating the death penalty, adopting a new penal code that once again allows capital punishment for crimes including treason, terrorism and espionage.

The country had abolished capital punishment in 2018

The 23-year-old man who admitted desecrating the tomb a few hours before the former French justice minister's entry into the Panthéon on 9 October was sentenced on Wednesday by the Nanterre court.

Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, pleaded guilty in 2001 in a deal to avoid the death penalty