The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

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Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Originally from Pennsylvania, Kohberger was a Washington State University Ph.D. student of criminology who lived just 10 ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...