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 .