Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

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Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...