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Officials plan to seek the death penalty for a Tennessee man charged with killing 4
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 ...
Tennessee death row inmate cries out in pain during lethal injection after state refused to deactivate defibrillator implant
The convicted murderer was put to death despite a legal battle over concerns his heart device would repeatedly shock him once ...
US won’t seek death penalty for Mexican drug lords Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero
U.S. prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael ...
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 ...
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Riviera Beach woman accused of killing daughter, 7
Nia Williams died on April 28. Investigators allege the 7-year-old suffered fatal damage to her organs after her mother stomped on her.
She Allegedly Made a Chilling Google Search — Then Fatally Stabbed Her Kids, Asked for Death Penalty
Veronique John, 50, allegedly stabbed her 11- and 7-year-old children at home before driving to attack her estranged husband ...
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 ...