death penalty

An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...

Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is once again seeking to delay his execution for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013. The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Tsarnaev last month. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was...

More than four years after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the procedure to determine the gunman’s fate is has begun with jury selection.

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday to reimpose the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

California, which last carried out an execution in 2006, is one of 28 states that maintain death rows, along with the U.S. government

An attorney for two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state’s three-drug lethal injection.

A Rhode Island man charged with abducting and killing a woman who had been celebrating her 23rd birthday at a Boston nightclub will not face the death penalty, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Louis Coleman III, 35, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of kidnapping resulting in death in connection with the February 2019 death of Jassy Correia, a Boston…

Medical experts say it’s unclear why an Oklahoma inmate began convulsing and vomiting after the first of three drugs used to execute him was administered

Willie B. Smith III, who avoided execution in February, has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.

The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday whether to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Daybell was also charged in his previous wife’s death. Court documents filed Thursday revealed that the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office will seek the death penalty in that case as well.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall over whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can be put to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued he had ineffective counsel at his trial.

The Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Monday, calling it “one of the worst” acts of terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11.

Despite President Joe Biden’s public opposition to capital punishment, his administration supported an appeal first filed by his predecessor in a 48-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.

The South Carolina House has voted to add the firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs

Virginia has become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty

An Associated Press review of court filings shows executioners who put 13 inmates to death during the Trump presidency offered sanitized, incomplete versions of the executions to judges