Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro sentencing underway

Sentencing is underway for Ariel Castro - the man who held three women captive for about a decade in his Cleveland home

• Aug 1, 2013

​Report: Ariz. tried to illegally import execution drug

Documents obtained by AP show state tried to obtain sodium thiopental, which isn't approved in the U.S.; shipment seized at airport

• Oct 23, 2015

Justice Scalia: "Wouldn't surprise me" if death penalty struck down

Supreme Court justice addressed capital punishment during a University of Minnesota Law School appearance

• Oct 20, 2015

Ohio delays executions until 2017 over lack of lethal drugs

State has run out of supplies of previous drugs and unsuccessfully sought new amounts, including failed attempts to import chemicals

• Oct 19, 2015

​No Oklahoma executions until at least 2016

State AG investigating why the wrong drug was used during a lethal injection in January and almost again last month

• Oct 16, 2015

​Texas executes inmate for killing man in $8 robbery

Juan Martin Garcia put to death for the September 1998 killing and robbery of Hugo Solano, a Mexican missionary, over $8

• Oct 6, 2015

The Supreme Court's notable cases in new term

These are some of the noteworthy cases the Supreme Court will hear in its new term, beginning Monday

• Oct 3, 2015

Inmate was feet from death chamber when reprieve came

Oklahoma governor delayed execution of Richard Glossip amid concern about drug protocol

• Oct 1, 2015

Wolf-dog hybrid escapes death sentence after petition drive

Owners say Karma is a Siberian Husky; animal control officials deemed her a wolf-hybrid and ordered her euthanized

• Sep 30, 2015

Kelly Gissendaner executed in Georgia

State's only female death row inmate was put to death after hours of delays and despite plea from Pope Francis to spare her life

• Sep 30, 2015

State rejects Pope's plea to spare life of Ga. woman

Kelly Gissendaner was scheduled to be executed Tuesday night; state parole board again declines clemency after receiving letter from papal representative to U.S.

• Sep 30, 2015

Transcript: Pope Francis' address to Congress

The pope delivered a historic address to members of Congress Thursday that touched on immigration, climate change, the death penalty, marriage and more

• Sep 24, 2015

Pope Francis to Congress: Act on immigration, climate

Francis is the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress, and he is not shying away from political differences with Republicans

• Sep 24, 2015

The D.A. And The Death Penalty

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins explains to Scott Pelley why he is ambivalent about the death penalty.

• May 4, 2008

Paraplegic man faces execution in Pakistan

Pakistan's first known paraplegic death row convict will be hanged after the Supreme Court refuses to halt execution

• Sep 21, 2015

​Missouri executes man for teen girl's 1989 killing

Roderick Nunley spent 25 years on death row for the murder of 15-year-old Ann Harrison; sixth inmate put to death in Missouri this year

• Sep 1, 2015

Federal judge halts executions in Mississippi

Mississippi is one of a number of states facing legal challenges to lethal injections; state trying to appeal judge's order

• Aug 25, 2015

Colorado theater victim's grandfather accuses juror

At a hearing, the grandfather said the juror intended to block the death penalty for James Holmes

• Aug 24, 2015

Connecticut's top court overturns death sentences in state

11 men on state's death row include two who were sentenced for killing a mother and her two daughters in 2007 home invasion

• Aug 13, 2015

Colorado shooter James Holmes' life now in jury's hands

After a long sentencing phase, jurors began to deliberate whether James Holmes should spend the rest of his life in prison or die by lethal injection

• Aug 6, 2015

​Jurors instructed on reasons to spare Colorado gunman's life

Panel will decide if there are "mitigating factors" that would keep them from considering the death penalty for James Holmes

• Jul 30, 2015

Colorado theater shooter's mom: Silence was cry for help

James Holmes' parents tell jurors their son gave reasons to worry months before deadly massacre

• Jul 29, 2015

Capital murder charge in woman's Hollywood murder

The charge makes suspect Ezeoma Obioha eligible for the death penalty in the shooting death of 30-year-old Carrie Melvin

• Jul 28, 2015

Susan Smith says she didn't plan to kill her sons

Twenty years after being convicted, South Carolina mother writes newspaper: "I am not the monster society thinks I am"

• Jul 22, 2015

D.A. seeks death penalty against mother of slain baby

Prosecutors say the punishment is warranted in the case of a woman accused of killing her 20-month-old

• Jul 20, 2015

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