A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for evidence in the ongoing investigation of a 2011 Massachusetts triple murder, saying the information wouldn't help their case.
A bruised and gaunt Eric Frein, captured after a seven-week manhunt and wearing the handcuffs of the Pennsylvania trooper he is accused of killing, was held without bail on Friday after his first court appearance on first-degree murder and other charges.
China is considering trimming nine crimes from the list of offences punishable by death, state media said on Monday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broader reforms to the country's legal system.
Immediately after his sword falls, the Saudi Arabian executioner steps backwards to avoid soiling his clothes with the blood of the condemned man, whose headless body can be seen slumping over backwards in the shaky online film.
An Arizona judge allowed convicted murderer Jodi Arias to represent herself on the second penalty phase her murder case in September, Latin Post reported. Jurors will then decide whether Arias will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.
The state of Texas executed its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy was put to death Wednesday evening for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor. McCarthy was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years. The 57-year-old McCarthy was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and stabbing death of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth.
Attorneys for Jodi Arias asked to step down from the case after their client was convicted of first -degree murder, but a judge denied the request. Attorneys Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott reportedly asked a judge for permission to withdraw from the case, but were denied.
After being convicted for first degree murder charges for the killing of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, Jodi Arias told FOX-10 Phoenix that she prefers the death penalty over a life in prison.
Richard Beasley, the Ohio street-preacher who lured his murder victims with bogus Craigslist job offers, has been sentenced to the death penalty in Akron. Beasley was convicted on March 12 of killing three men and wounding a fourth, all of whom hegave false promises of farmhand jobs to in southeast Ohio in 2011.
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced his team will seek the death penalty against James Holmes, accused of shooting 70 people, killing 12 during a midnight screening in Aurora Colorado.
Steven Ray Thacker, 42, who was convicted of committing three murders in a three-state killing spree in 1999, was executed at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester, Reuters reported.
Frederick Teesh, who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multi state crime spree nearly 20 years ago, was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from an inmate, Nathan Dunlap who killed four people at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993, giving a Colorado judge the ability to schedule the state's first execution in 15 years. The court's rejection has ended Dunlap's guaranteed appeals, and sends the case back to Colorado's 18th Judicial District, where a judge will set a time frame for execution.
