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Death Penalty

Death penalty on table in Murdaugh murder case

  • May 16
University of South Florida Police Department/WFTS

Prosecutors seek death penalty for alleged killer of 2 FL students

  • May 8

Former FedEx driver sentenced to death for killing 7-year-old girl

  • May 6

Prosecutors won't appeal death penalty ruling in Luigi Mangione case

  • Feb 28

Prosecutors slam Mangione lawyers' claims about Bondi's lobbying ties

  • Jan 8

Suspect in National Guard shooting faces new federal charges

  • Dec 26, 2025

Death-eligible charge for Luigi Mangione must be dismissed: defense

  • Oct 11, 2025

Death penalty for Mangione is political: Lawyers

  • Sep 20, 2025

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Harris County Judge Natalia Cornelio takes stand to fight public reprimand

  • Feb 18
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TX man executed for clerk's burning death during 2012 robbery

  • May 21, 2025
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Man gets death sentence after he pled guilty to killing couple and 6-year-old in SW Houston

  • Apr 18, 2025
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New jabs traded about judge's involvement in death penalty case

  • Jan 9, 2025
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Motion filed to block death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying

  • Dec 20, 2024
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Texas issues subpoena for death row inmate Robert Roberson's testimony

  • Dec 18, 2024
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Trial judge in Robert Roberson's death row case agrees to recusal

  • Dec 1, 2024
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New trial ordered for Texas death row inmate over antisemitic bias

  • Nov 7, 2024

Latest Stories

Tennessee executes inmate by lethal injection without deactivating his implanted defibrillator

Tennessee executed Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.

  • Aug 5, 2025

Tennessee plans to execute inmate amid concerns his heart implant will shock him repeatedly

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.

  • Aug 5, 2025

Pure Evil: The Ertman-Peña Murders

On June 24, 1993, 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Peña decided to take a shortcut home through T.C. Jester Park. They walked straight into unimaginable horror.

  • Jun 25, 2025
Cedric Hohnstadt via AP

Man charged with killing lawmaker could face rarity for Minnesota: the death penalty

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that is a rarity for Minnesota but could become more common under the Trump administration

  • Jun 18, 2025
Alabama Department of Corrections/Florida Department of Corrections/Oklahoma Department of Corrections/South Carolina Department of Corrections via CNN Newsource

4 executions are scheduled in 4 states over 4 days this week | Here's what we know

It comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls for the death penalty's expansion.

  • Jun 9, 2025