A Missouri man whose death sentence was overturned three times before being reinstated is now scheduled to die in May for killing a small-town couple nearly ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in which family members ...

WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices on Wednesday leaned toward reinstating convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed three ...

FARGO, N.D.—A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for a man convicted in the 2003 slaying of a North Dakota college student, saying new ...

RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 slayings of nine members of a black South Carolina congregation, ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed ...

Convicted killer Scott Peterson’s death penalty sentence was reversed by the California Supreme Court on Monday over his 2004 murder conviction of his pregnant wife, Laci, ...

China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties.

A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and ordered a new penalty-phase trial.

A Pakistani court has commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, ...

Several courts have delayed planned executions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by the CCP virus.

Colorado abolished its seldom-used death penalty on Monday, joining a growing number of states that have eschewed capital punishment as a deterrent to the most serious ...

Alabama is set to execute an inmate on March 5 night for the murders of three police officers who were shot by another man in a ...

A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Feb. 27, hours after he spoke in court and blamed the devil for his ...

The higher court annulled Pervez Musharraf's death sentence, saying that the special tribunal that handed down the sentence was unconstitutional. The exiled former military dictator was ...

NEW DELHI—India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the final appeal of one of the four men sentenced to death for the 2012 fatal gang rape of ...

ISLAMABAD—A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country’s former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency ...

Iran Claims They Sentences Man to Death for Spying for the CIA.

A jury has sentenced a South Carolina father to death on June 13 for murdering his five young children, then dumping their bodies on the side ...

BEIJING—A Chinese court held an appeal hearing on May 9 for a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling in a case that has ...

MONTGOMERY—The Alabama Supreme Court has set a new lethal injection date for a man convicted in the 1991 sword-and-dagger slaying of a pastor. The Montgomery Advertiser ...

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to death by hanging for belonging to the ISIS terrorist group and committing terrorist crimes in Iraq and Syria, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas—Chaos erupted outside Texas’ death chamber on the night of Feb. 28 when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted ...

A Texas man who murdered a police officer was executed on Dec. 4 at a prison in Huntsville. Joseph Garcia, 47, was placed on death row after ...

A Jordanian immigrant was sentenced to death in Texas on Aug. 14 for his “honor killings” of his son-in-law and daughter’s close friend. Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, ...