Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says there is no reliable research on whether the death penalty has any effect on the murder rate, more than 35 years since the Supreme Court allowed the resumption of executions in the United States.
The National Research Council report says all the studies on the possible deterrent effect of the death penalty suffer from fundamental flaws...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Associated Press is seeking to intervene in a pending death penalty case in Wyoming to oppose a lawyer's request to seal court records.
The AP, a cooperative that serves news organizations in Wyoming and around the world, filed papers Wednesday in Laramie County District Court asking to intervene in the case against Nathaniel Castellanos of Cheyenne...
On Wednesday, the Georgia State Board of Pardons rejected a last-minute appeal to halt the execution of Troy Davis, a death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing a police officer in a crime both he and many others say he did not commit.
Although defense attorneys argued that ballistic testing linking Davis to the shooting was flawed and said Davis would take a polygraph test, the board said
The Army has announced that Maj. Nidal Hasan will be tried in a military court and is eligible for the death penalty for his role in a 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas.
An attorney for the former military psychiatrist, who's been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in connection with the deadly rampage, wanted capital punishment tak