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Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border Patrol Agent David Maland's fatal shooting.

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

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Why the era of capital punishment is ending. By David Von Drehle . The case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev absorbed Americans as no death-penalty drama has in years.

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...