Death sentence

The Arizona Supreme Court struck down an attempt to repeal Clarence Dixon's death sentence.

Citing four claims made by Lucio's attorneys, an appeals court sent the Texas mom's case back to a trial court two days before her scheduled execution.

Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after the infant fell down the stairs, is set to be executed next week.

Smith, 72, was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife Judith Smith, 35, and her sons.

Deck confessed to killing a husband and wife in Missouri in 1996 and was first sentenced to death in 1998.

TotalEnergies and Chevron will withdraw from an offshore natural gas field in Myanmar, citing worsening conditions in the country since a 2021 military coup.

The decision was made after Attorney General Herbert Slatery said he would not appeal a recent resentencing in the case.

"I'd like to be able to move on from ever thinking of him again," said Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter died in the 2018 school shooting in Florida.

Jones, 41, of Oklahoma is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 1999 killing of businessman Paul Howell. He has always maintained he was set up.

Christie suggested to his Republican colleagues that they didn't need to secure Trump's approval in order to win over voters.

Jones' execution is scheduled for November 19, but Gov. Kevin Stitt is still considering a state parole board recommendation to commute his death sentence.

The court will rule if inmates on death row are allowed to have spiritual advisers pray with them and lay a hand on them during their execution.

David Neal Cox wrote to the state Supreme Court's chief justice in 2018 saying that he wanted to rescind all appeals and have his execution date set.

"This is an event that should've never happened. I'd also like to apologize to my mom and my daughter," Christopher Henderson said of the quintuple homicide.

Despite its opposition against the federal death penalty, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to uphold the verdict of the jury.

The parole board voted 3-2 to reject a clemency request for death row inmate John Marion Grant, whose scheduled execution date is October 28, 2021.

"Personally, I believe in death penalty cases there should be no doubts. And put simply, I have doubts about this case," said board Chairman Adam Luck.

Sowell had been found guilty of murdering 11 people and disposing of the bodies on his Columbus, Ohio property.

Jones was sentenced to death nearly 20 years ago, despite many criticizing the way that his case was handled. Kardashian West and other celebrities have spoken out against his sentencing.

The former army chief and president was sentenced to death Monday in absentia by a 2-1 special court decision.

"He has to be careful. They may think: 'Here's this rich guy who got caught and the president can't get him out so why is he more special than us?'"

Respicius Mtazangira, 51, was found guilty of killing pupil Sperius Eradius, 14, by a high court this week.

Australian man Luke Cook and his wife Kanyarat Wechapitak were allegedly involved in a criminal network.

The attack in Tokyo's subway killed 13 people and injured 6,000 others.

Live video footage proved that young students, in their school uniforms, were in attendance.

2016 is likely to see a record-low number of new death sentences nationwide.

Social media defies the Saudi government, repeating claims likening the Kingdom's methods it ISIS's

Since the ruling on November 17, artists across the world have denounced the sentence handed to the Palestinian poet and artist.

Gallup found that 61 percent of U.S. adults support the execution of a person convicted of murder.

An Oklahoma Court granted the death row inmate a stay to give itself time to consider new evidence.