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  • Karen Conti, a lawyer who represented serial killer John Wayne Gacy during his last death row appeals, said she believes Gacy killed dozens more .

  • California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment.

  • Madeline "Maddie" Soto disappeared on Feb.

  • Closing arguments begin Thursday morning in the case, then Patrick McDowell's fate will be in the hands of the jury.

  • After the jury deliberated for about seven hours over two days, Paige Terrell Lawyer was sentenced for his capital murder conviction in the 2018 killings.

  • Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said all of the California county’s death penalty cases are under review after a member of her office found evidence that prosecutors in a 30-year-old .

  • Closing arguments will start Thursday in the sentencing trial for the former Marine who killed Nassau County Deputy Joshua Moyers.

  • A court ruling in Taiwan could lead to abolishing capital punishment on the island.

  • The Alameda County District Attorney's office was ordered by a federal judge to review more than 30 death penalty cases after Black and Jewish jurors were purposefully excluded in the conviction of a .

  • The verdict was issued by Branch 1 of Isfahan's Revolutionary Court, which found Salehi guilty of "corruption on earth," a charge that can carry the death penalty.

  • If signed into law, the bill would grant confidentiality to any person or entity involved in the state's executions such as doctors or medical suppliers.

  • A judge has ordered a review of all death penalty cases from Alameda County following the discovery of prosecutors' notes that appear to show the illegal exclusion of Jewish and Black female jurors .