Arkansas will hold two executions on the same day, if two inmates are put to death as planned on April…
White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. has been sentenced to death for the killing of three people at two Jewish…
Ohio state has suspended executions until at least 2017 as it struggles to acquire the lethal drugs needed to carry…
Aurora gunman James Holmes will serve life in jail without the possibility of parole for killing 12 people at a…
Jackie Chan, whose son Jaycee was jailed for drugs offences, has said he supports the use of the death penalty…
Martin Richard’s parents have called on federal authorities to drop the death penalty as a possible punishment for bomber Dzhokhar…
Jodi Arias has escaped the death penalty for murdering ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008 after an Arizona jury failed to…
A judge has approved Jodi Arias request to represent herself in Travis Alexander murder trial. Jodi Arias, 34, admitted killing…
According to court documents, Jodi Arias has failed to convince Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens that she should…
President Barack Obama has announced he will ask Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate problems surrounding the application of the…
White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree, has been…
Jodi Arias returns to a 7ft x 11ft cell in Estrella Jail each day as she awaits to find out…
Kirk Nurmi, Jodi Arias' lawyer, stands to make extra $200,000, paid for by taxpayer, because his bid to stop defending…
Members of jury for the Jodi Arias court case were sent home at 4.30 p.m. local time after spending the…
Jodi Arias tearfully pleaded with jurors to spare her from a death sentence in Travis Alexander murder case on Tuesday…
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has been charged with using a weapon of mass…
British housewife Lindsay Sandiford has lost her appeal against her death sentence in Bali for drug trafficking, a Bali High…
State of Maryland is poised to abolish the death penalty after its lawmakers voted 82 to 56 in favor of…
Lindsay Sandiford, a 56-year-old British grandmother, has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Lindsay…
Robert Bales, the US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans and injuring six others, could face the death penalty if…
Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of…