The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

Zahir Jaffer is scion of one of South Asian country’s richest families

A British man on trial for drug offenses has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge of trafficking that could carry the death penalty was dropped

Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly clerk, received the death penalty in 2013. The execution is Texas’ fourth and may be the last for 2025.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu appeared in court on Monday for his latest hearing in a treason trial in which he faces a potential death penalty.

Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua, a presidential candidate who also represents opposition figures on trial in neighbouring countries, was arrested in Tanzania on Sunday, a spokesperson told AFP. Karua has been representing Tanzanian opposition leader Tindu Lissu, who is on trial for treason and faces a possible death penalty.

Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the prospect of execution. In 1998, a jury convicted Duncan of murdering his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, and he had been on death row ever since.

GOP lawmakers seek to close ‘dangerous loophole’ preventing local prosecutors from seeking capital punishment for most serious crimes

Texas Rep. Morgan Luttrell has introduced a bill that would make migrants eligible for the death penalty if they commit murder in the U.S.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is seeking the death penalty for two Mexicans operating a boat that capsized off the coast of California, killing at least three people

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she’d be seeking the death penalty against the alleged smugglers

Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers are urging a judge to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson