The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team has COVID-19

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland mass shooting trial became the scene of a tense standoff Monday pitting the defense, missing a critical team member due to COVID, against a Broward County judge who has grown openly tired of delays that have pushed jury selection into its third month.

VARANASI: Ten years before Monday’s decision of the Ghaziabad sessions court of awarding death penalty to Waliullah Khan in March 7, 2006, serial blasts in Varanasi, the then Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had sought legal opinion for the withdrawal of cases from some terrorists, including Waliullah.

A judge has denied an Arizona prisoner’s bid to delay his execution in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl

The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team has COVID-19

British fighters Aiden Aslin, 28, Shaun Pinner, 48, and Andrew Hill, 35 - whose families have previously claimed they are members of the Ukrainian army - have been warned they may be executed despite neither Russia nor Ukraine permitting the death penalty

The 32-year-old woman was raped and assaulted inside a tempo in suburban Mumbai’s Sakinaka

The son of Egypt’s immigration minister is facing the death penalty for the premeditated murder of two young men in the United States.

Lower courts must rigorously comply with the Supreme Court of India’s decision in ‘Manoj’ enabling an informed sentencing inquiry

About 170 countries so far have abolished or introduced moratoria of death penalties in law or practice.

NIA court verdict triggers strong political reaction in J&K