Death Penalty

Jury deadlocks again on life term or death for Jodi Arias

2013-05-23 16:57:00

PHOENIX—The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it was deadlocked on whether to sentence her to life in prison or death for killing her one-time...

James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas

2013-05-24 00:00:00

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...

Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro to plead not guilty

2013-05-15 09:20:00

Ariel Castro, facing kidnapping and rape charges in connection with the Cleveland case of three women held prisoner for about a decade, will plead not guilty, his lawyers said Wednesday. The announcement, made on national television, is part of the...

Jodi Arias due back in court today as jury weighs death penalty

2013-05-15 08:26:00

PHOENIX — Jodi Arias returns to court Wednesday so jurors can consider whether the death penalty should be an option for sentencing the former waitress convicted last week of murdering her former boyfriend. Arias, 32, spent the weekend on...

Jodi Arias eligible for death penalty, jurors decide

2013-05-15 15:37:00

PHOENIX — Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial found Wednesday that the former waitress should be eligible for the death penalty because the slaying of her lover was especially cruel and heinous. The decision came after a day of testimony. Arias, 32,...

Cleveland kidnapping suspect could face death penalty

2013-05-09 16:56:00

Hours after Ariel Castro was arraigned on rape and kidnapping counts in connection with three women held prisoner for years in his Cleveland house, Ohio prosecutors said they would seek new charges that he abused some of his victims and forced them to...

Cleveland prosecutor: Ariel Castro could face death penalty

2013-05-09 14:33:00

Ariel Castro might face new charges that could lead to the death penalty, the Ohio prosecutor in charge of the case said Thursday. Hours after Castro, 52, was arraigned on rape and kidnapping charges in connection with holding three female prisoners for...

Theater shooting suspect James Holmes to enter insanity plea

2013-05-07 16:08:00

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- James E. Holmes, suspected of carrying out the Aurora movie theater massacre that killed 12 and injured 70 last summer, will plead not guilty by reason of insanity in court next week, his defense lawyers signaled Tuesday in a court...

Insanity defense expected for theater shooting suspect James Holmes

2013-05-13 08:39:00

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- James E. Holmes, accused of carrying out the Aurora movie theater massacre that killed 12 and injured 70 last summer, is expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity in court Monday, his defense lawyers have said in a court...

Justice vs. vengeance in Aurora

2013-04-12 17:17:00

Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., last year, to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. In deciding instead to seek the death penalty, the...

Poll: James Holmes and the death penalty

2013-04-12 11:58:00

Some friends and relatives of the victims of July's�movie theater shooting spree in Aurora, Colo., in which 12 people were killed and dozens injured, are pleased that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against alleged gunman James Holmes and have...

New judge, trial date for James Holmes in death penalty case

2013-04-01 11:22:00

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- The murder trial of James E. Holmes, accused in last year's deadly attack on a suburban movie theater, will not start until 2014 and will go forward under a new judge, officials decided on Monday after the prosecution announced it...

At a Governor's press conference after passage of SB 276, which ends the death penalty in Maryland, Bonnita Spikes, left, listens as Vicki Schieber of Frederick County thanks death penalty opponents for their work in getting the bill passed. Ms.

2013-03-15 00:00:00

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, center, speaks at a rally in support of repealing the state's death penalty in Annapolis, Md., Tuesday.

2013-01-15 17:24:00

California's death penalty has long been an exercise in futility, given that no one has been executed here since 2006, only 13 inmates have been put to death since capital punishment was reinstated in the mid-1970s and death row inmates are far more likely to die of old age than lethal injection.

2012-12-14 12:54:42