BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The man convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students is asking a court to let him withdraw his guilty plea and…
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is set to become the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, planning…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, a punish…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida is set to execute two death row inmates on the same day for the first time in more than 60 y…
MIAMI (AP) — Florida was again preparing Tuesday to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history, a 74-year-old convicted murderer…
Is there such a thing as being too old to execute? Aging death row inmates are set to die in Florida
MIAMI (AP) — The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old — the oldest the state has executed in modern t…
Death penalty abolitionists rallied at Legislative Hall on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to support House Bill 35, which would permanently enshrine the state's ban on capital punishment in its Constitution.
Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth, which had the second-highest number of executions in the U.S.