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Death Penalty

Family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez calls for D4vd to face death penalty

  • Sep 8

Texas executes 600th inmate since death penalty was reinstated in 1976

  • May 17

Death penalty on table in Murdaugh murder case

  • May 16
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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

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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

Death-eligible charge for Luigi Mangione must be dismissed, defense says

The federal charge that makes Luigi Mangione eligible for the death penalty must be dismissed because it does not meet the legal threshold, the defense says.

  • Oct 11, 2025
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Luigi Mangione's lawyers say possible death penalty 'based on politics, not merit'

The federal indictment making Luigi Mangione eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted should be dismissed, his lawyers said.

  • Sep 20, 2025

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