The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

South Carolina prosecutors seek death penalty for James Drayton in fatal shooting case. Drayton faces charges for killing five individuals in Inman.

The outrage over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital on August 9 has continued, with the protesters demanding death penalty for the accused and passing of the Central Protection Act, 2022, to provide protection to health workers and hospitals.  

Defense Secretary Austin reinstates death penalty for 9/11 defendants, sparking controversy and legal complexities.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday scrapped a plea agreement with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, just two days after the announcement of a deal that reportedly would have taken the death penalty off the table.

Defense Secretary revokes plea deal for 9/11 terrorists, reigniting death penalty possibility.

Reversal was announced in memo relieving war court overseer of duty

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has overridden a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases

An Idaho prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty against an Idaho inmate charged with killing a man while he was on the lam during a 36-hour escape from prison

In exchange for removing the death penalty as a possible punishment, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other accused plead guilty. Plus, extreme heat at the Olympics