Tallapoosa County hands down first death sentence in 29 years in horrifying murder spree
D.A. Mike Segrest sought death for Derrick Hightower. The last death sentence handed down in the circuit was by his father, retired Judge Dale Segrest, in 1995.
New Orleans attack: Search continues for potential Bourbon Street accomplices as state AG vows death penalty
Authorities say the suspect in the New Orleans truck attack considered killing his friends and family prior to the attack, ...
Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty ...
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty two decades after last execution
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
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Joe Biden’s Long, Winding Road on the Death Penalty
Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...
Trump vows to direct DOJ to pursue death penalty in wake of Biden clemencies
President-elect Trump vowed Tuesday to direct his Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue the death penalty in the wake of ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants death penalty for migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway: 'Finish him'
Ga., calls for a swift trial and death penalty for the suspect accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York subway.
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...
Zimbabwe Abolishes The Death Penalty
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Death row prisoner asks Arizona for second time to be executed sooner than the state wants
Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures.