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Officials to seek death penalty in killings

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of ...

U.S. Says It Will Not Seek Death Penalty Against 3 Drug Cartel Bosses

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Capital Jewish Museum shooting suspect indicted on murder and hate crime charges and could face death penalty

Federal prosecutors secured an indictment Wednesday detailing nearly 10 charges connected with the killings of Israeli ...

Death penalty is off table for two Mexican narcos

U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won't seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo ...

Gunman charged in deadly Israeli Embassy shooting of two staffers could face death penalty

Elias Rodriguez, who was heard shouting, “Free Palestine,” after the shootings, was previously charged with murder of foreign ...

U.S. declines to pursue death penalty against trio of accused Mexican cartel kingpins

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

She Allegedly Made a Chilling Google Search — Then Fatally Stabbed Her Kids, Asked for Death Penalty

A British mother fatally stabbed her two children and attacked her husband at a car wash, prosecutors say, because she didn’t ...

Death Row inmate to face first of Its kind execution

Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...