A jail call — and doubt about plea — emerges before killer’s death penalty trial

In a jail call, Alberto Sierra — convicted of killing his wife and her two young girls — said there was an agreement to spare ...

Former president of China's SIIC group given death penalty with two-year reprieve

HONG KONG, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Zhou Jun, former president of China's Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings) Company Limited (SIIC), was sentenced to the death penalty with a two-year reprieve due ...

Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Parents Lobby for Death Penalty if D4vd Found Guilty of Daughter’s Murder

Celeste Rivas Hernandez's parents have lobbied for the death penalty if D4vd is found guilty of the murder of their daughter.

“I Couldn’t Breathe”: Singer and YouTuber in His 40s Faces Prosecutors’ Call for Death Penalty Despite Daughter’s Pleas

Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for a singer and YouTuber in his 40s who was indicted for assaulting his teenage ...

California has one-quarter of all the nation’s death sentences. Will Newsom commute them all?

More than 560 people still face death sentences in California, despite a longstanding moratorium on executions.

Why star TV presenter Sarah Khalifa faces the death penalty in Egypt and what comes next?

Egyptian law allows capital punishment for some serious drug offences, while a 2024 reform gives felony defendants a full appeal before the Court of Cassation. Euronews examines how the process works ...

Becerra once pushed for the death penalty, but says he would extend a moratorium if elected governor

California's next governor will decide whether to continue a moratorium on executions. Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican ...
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Blackburn wants changes to death penalty, but governors have little power to make them

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican nominee for governor of Tennessee, wants to expedite executions and "bring back the ...