Convicted murderer, Christopher Wilkins was executed via lethal injection earlier today in the State of Texas. This marks the 539th inmate executed in the State and first for the year 2017. There are still 8 more inmates scheduled for execution early this year.
Republican-controlled Senate may approve the legislation into law, bringing back the electric chair as Virginia's default method of execution, due to the difficulty of obtaining the drugs used in lethal injections.
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman may face trial in Brooklyn, New York which has the strongest drug-trafficking case against the alleged Sinaloa drug cartel leader.
The Shelby County district attorney's office filed on Monday thd notice of its intent to seek death in the trial of 30-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, an ex-convict accused of killing Officer Sean Bolton.
Utah bill was approved 6-3 by lawmakers that gives the death penalty to someone convicted of human trafficking if their victim dies. Opponents of the death penalty called said bill as expensive and excessive.
Georgia is set to execute its oldest death row inmate Tuesday, after a federal appeals court refused to hear a challenge to the law governing lethal injection.
Missouri prosecutors will have the murder case of Reginald Clemons re-tried. Clemons, along with three others, were charged of rape and first-degree murder of sisters Julie and Robin Kerry in 1991.
James Freeman is the second man to be placed in the death row through lethal injection for killing a Texas game warden in 2007. The accused fatally wounded Hurst in a shootout as officers tried to take him into custody.
Death penalty of juveniles in Iran is taken under the micriscope by Amnesty International. The group is aiming to lessen the punishment of these offenders.
California advocates and opponents sparred over the new proposed protocol for lethal injection on public hearing last week. Advocates urged the protocol adoption which could resume executions in the state after a 10-year hiatus.
Christopher E. Brooks was executed Thursday night for being convicted of rape and murder. The Supreme Court upheld Alamaba jury's decision to put Brooks to death by lethal injection.
The Supreme Court has ruled Florida's death penalty system unconstitutional. 390 inmates on Florida's death row is expecting to appeal for resentencing.
Execution awaits a Pittsburg County killer after his appeals were denied by the US federal court. Judges said the man might have been saved from death penalty had he told the jury about his mental disorder.
Connecticut state attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to revisit the 2012 repeal on death penalty as inapplicable to those who had been in death row at that time. Their arguments focus on 11 inmates convicted during the repeal and whose legal status remains ambiguous up to now.
When the last U.S. Supreme Court term ended in June with an unusual showdown over a decision approving Oklahoma's lethal injection process, some court watchers saw it as a sign the court might soon take up the bigger question of the constitutionality of the death penalty itself.
Connecticut prosecutors asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its recent decision on a narrow vote to end the state's death penalty, a clerk for the state Supreme Court said.
Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty, calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
