Death Penalty News

A man convicted in 1981 of attacking three women has had his death sentence set aside by a Sonoma County court after he was recently found to be mentally retarded.

A Mexican man who had been accused of transporting illegal immigrants after a rollover crash killed nine people faces new charges that could bring the death penalty.

The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of killing his prison cellmate, ruling that jurors at his first trial never heard critical evidence in deciding his punishment.

A prosecutor says he intends to seek the death penalty for a man serving a life sentence who is accused of killing his cellmate.

Transportation of a Stolen Vehicle Joseph Duncan is eligible for the death penalty, a jury of eight men and four women found after just under two hours of deliberation.

Testimony in the death penalty hearing of confessed child killer Joseph Duncan Tuesday focused on the murders of two half-sisters in the Seattle-area in 1996.

A Flagler County jury has convicted Cornelius Baker of first-degree murder for kidnapping and killing a Daytona Beach woman last year.

Police found the Arkansas beauty queen dead in her off-campus apartment in December 2005, her head bludgeoned by a floor lamp, her neck slit by a knife.

Charles Peak is trying to get the attention of the judges who will hear the Larry Evans Jr.

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In a rare federal death penalty case in Tennessee, the trial of a Georgia man charged in the abduction-slaying of an Atlanta restaurant owner is expected to take six weeks in Chattanooga.

A Glendora man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his mother and her companion at their Glendora home, a judge ruled Thursday.

A decade after the reported remains of a missing Broken Arrow girl were discovered in a field, her stepfather will go on trial a second time on a charge of killing her.

The 2004 death of a Boynton man was part of a murder-for-hire scheme, according to filings in a Muskogee County murder cases against two men.

Jose Rubi-Nava is not mentally retarded, according to documents released Friday, and that clears the way for a death sentence if he is convicted in the dragging death of his girlfriend.

Jury selection for a 2001 Mandeville murder is expected to end late Thursday or early Friday after a lengthy effort to find jurors not prejudiced by media coverage of the high profile case.

Authorities are scrambling to figure out how to arrest, incarcerate and prosecute a woman estimated to weigh nearly half a ton and was indicted on capital murder charges.

Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a University of Colorado student more than 10 years ago.

An Oklahoma City man has pleaded guilty to killing the mother of his unborn child.

Two men accused of being a serial-killing team faced each other for the first time in more than a year Friday as attorneys sparred over their alleged roles in a series of random, late-night attacks during the summer of 2006.

This time, however, Samuel Dieteman was working with prosecutors, testifying at a hearing that he and Dale Hausner, his former roommate, would take turns attacking people. He also described shootings he didn't witness that he said Hausner and Hausner's brother told him about.