A local prosecutor in South Carolina plans to seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and ...

Loved ones, prosecutors and officers reacted with relief after a jury returned a death sentence for Joshua Rocha in the 2022 ...

Crawford was sentenced to death in connection with the 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of Ray, a 20-year-old college student in Tippah County. [ READ: Mississippi death row inmate appeals case to U.S ...

A Virginia father will serve 30 years in prison after he murdered his baby daughter over a gaming headset. La’Shaun Quintae Holloway, 27, was convicted of second degree felony murder and child abuse, ...

New Hampshire's only inmate on death row has been granted a rare opportunity to plead his case for a life sentence before the state's highest court. In a brief single-page order handed down Monday, ...

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

The government said former President Joseph Kabila had collaborated with Rwanda and the M23 rebel group that seized key ...

U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international law.

Supreme Court overturns conviction and death sentence of Chennai engineer accused of raping and killing girl due to lack of ...

Family-run Ming syndicate from Myanmar’s northern Shan State convicted of fraud, killings and running telecom scam parks that ...

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate that ran a gambling operation worth $1.4 billion and for killing disobedient workers.