Prosecutors in Arizona are seeking to execute a prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty after a two-year pause.
For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.
Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to pleas from Pope Francis and other death penalty opponents.
In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law should be struck down because the practice of jury selection in capital cases .
Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler in November denied 12 motions filed by the defense, collectively referred to as the death penalty motions, challenging the prosecution’s intent to seek the state’s .
If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took office.
Palm Beach County prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in the November 2021 fatal stabbing of Ryan Rogers, 14, of Palm Beach Gardens.
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President Joe Biden's statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life in prison without possibility of parole was as matter of fact as .
Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip should a jury convict him, the 8 News Now .
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of about 60 prisoners on death row.
Arizona prosecutors are seeking to execute Aaron Brian Gunches, ending a 2-year pause in capital punishment in the state.