Inmate lauds death penalty before being executed

David Zink was put to death for sex assault and murder of 19-year-old woman, but had message for other death row inmates

• Jul 15, 2015

Supreme Court rules on controversial lethal injections

Court upholds the use of a lethal injection drug that has been linked to botched executions

• Jun 29, 2015

Death penalty being sought in slaying of McStay family

Chase Merritt is accused of killing his business partner and the partner's wife and young sons before burying them in the California desert

• Jun 29, 2015

Man sentenced to death for sledgehammer killings

Shawn Ford, Jr., beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in April 2013; they had refused to let him visit his ex-girlfriend, whom he stabbed 10 days earlier

• Jun 29, 2015

Boston bomber will get chance to break his silence

Families of victims in the Boston Marathon bombing will confront 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at his sentencing Wed.; will he speak?

• Jun 23, 2015

Pa. man gets death in murder of woman and child, 4

Ebony Talley was five months' pregnant when she was stabbed to death by Marcel Johnson

• Jun 10, 2015

Jesse Matthew pleads not guilty in 2005 Va. attack

Man accused of killing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham is about to go to trial in a separate case of attempted murder nearly a decade ago

• Jun 8, 2015

Texas executes man for 1983 ranch murder

Lester Bower, 67, was the eighth person put to death in Texas this year and the oldest since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982

• Jun 3, 2015

Death sentence thrown out for man who killed maid

Georgia Supreme Court rules jury should have heard details of "pervasive violence" in Gregory Walker's life before determining sentence

• Jun 1, 2015

Nebraska abolishes the death penalty

State senators voted to override Gov. Pete Ricketts and have Nebraska join 18 U.S. states and the District of Columbia to ban capital punishment

• May 27, 2015

Judge: Boston bomber to be formally sentenced to death in June

At least 20 victims will make statements at sentencing hearing and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will also be given the opportunity to speak

• May 19, 2015

Capital murder charges expected in Waco biker shootout

Some of the 170 biker gang members booked and held on $1M bond each could face the death penalty over shootout that left 9 dead

• May 18, 2015

Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets death penalty two years after bombing that killed three and injured more than 260

• May 15, 2015

Boston bombing jury stumped by legal concepts, ends deliberations

Same jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must now decide whether he gets life in prison or death

• May 14, 2015

Boston Marathon bomber's fate in hands of jury

Lawyers make final appeals as jurors begin deliberating whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should get life in prison or death penalty

• May 13, 2015

"Dead Man Walking" nun testifies, defense rests in Boston bomber trial

Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev call nun made famous in 1995 movie as final witness in bid to save him from the death penalty

• May 11, 2015

Doctor: Boston bomber's dad claimed he was tortured, had PTSD

Psychiatrist's testimony appears designed to support claim by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers about dysfunction in his family

• May 5, 2015

Boston Marathon bomber cries, blows a kiss as relatives testify

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shows emotion for the first time in his federal death penalty trial

• May 4, 2015

​Supreme Court gets heated in argument over execution drugs

The Justices clashed with one another and fired hostile questions at the lawyers over a death penalty debate

• Apr 29, 2015

Could the Supreme Court restrict the use of lethal injection?

Court hears arguments Wednesday after some say recent botched executions were cruel and unusual punishment

• Apr 29, 2015

Texas Judge halts death row inmate's execution

Just hours before he was scheduled to be put to death, Robert Pruett got a reprieve as his appeals are considered

• Apr 28, 2015

Boston bomber's wife researched martyrdom, expert testifies

Testimony in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial zeroes in on his late brother's wife, raising questions about what she knew before the attacks

• Apr 28, 2015

8 face Indonesia firing squad; 1 spared from execution

Official says female Filipino wins stay; Indonesia media reports that 8 others executed despite international outcry

• Apr 28, 2015

Boston bomber's lawyer: "There is no evening the scales"

Lawyer for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says there's no punishment Tsarnaev can receive that would be equal to the suffering of the victims

• Apr 27, 2015

​Prosecutors hope this testimony will lead to death for Tsarnaev

Courtroom in Boston Marathon bombing trial overcome with emotion as prosecutors rest case in penalty phase

• Apr 23, 2015

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