L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

The teen accused of stabbing track star Austin Metcalf to death will not face life behind bars or the death penalty, ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

George John Hanson, also known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, is scheduled to die on June 12 for the 1999 murder of 77-year-old ...

The Justice Department detailed its case against Santos in a 26-page letter to United States District Judge Joanna Seybert.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

Hochman ousted George Gascón to become district attorney last year. He was a strong opponent of the death penalty, announcing in one of his first major decisions that his office would no longer ...

Los Angeles’s top prosecutor will once again seek the death penalty for people convicted of capital murders, the LA County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday. District Attorney Nathan ...

Hasan was convicted of murdering 13 people at Ford Hood (now Fort Cavazos) in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court was his last hope ...

They argued that Gendron's death penalty verdict "must not be returned ... That happened in the 2012 trial of George Zimmerman, who prosecutors said shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a Black child.