State and federal prosecutors have both accused Mr. Mangione of killing a health insurance executive. Attorney General Pam ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the federal government’s ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

Prosecutors won’t be allowed to use alleged killer Bryan Kohberger’s autism to argue to a jury that he deserves the death ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of ...

Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were ...

A jury sentenced convicted murderer Nicholas Canfield to life in prison for the death of 2-year-old Jaliyah Rose Ramos. His ...

Karmelo Anthony, 17, who allegedly stabbed Metcalf in the heart at the Frisco athletic event last week, is protected from death row — and even life without parole — by the Supreme Court due to his age ...

The teen accused of stabbing track star Austin Metcalf to death will not face life behind bars or the death penalty, according to a Texas district attorney.

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

Luigi Mangione, 26, accused in the slaying of CEO Brian Thompson, is up for the death penalty if he's convicted on federal ...