A lmost a year after his arrest, former Enochs High School teacher James Hooker appeared in a Modesto courtroom Monday for a ...

President Trump on Tuesday said he will push for the death penalty in cases of murder in Washington, D.C., amid his crackdown ...

Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in March was halted, was remanded to the lower court.

After the return of the U.S. death penalty in 1976, Florida carried out a high of eight executions in 2014, a one-year total only matched this year with a mid-July execution and now exceeded.

Iran’s top court has upheld the death sentence against imprisoned labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, months after overturning ...

Texas' highest appeals court remanded David Leonard Wood's serial killer death penalty case back to a trial court in a divided decision between the justices. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...

A Tennessee man has avoided a trial and a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to fatally shooting three people and ...

A federal court on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence. The U.S ...

Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions ...

Lorne Michaels opens up on the future of SNL in Trump’s America: ‘Denouncing him doesn’t work’ ...

A federal appeals court in March 2024 ordered O’Toole to investigate claims of juror bias by the defense and to determine whether Tsarnaev’s death sentence should stand.