Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

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A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

The defense attorneys did their job of lying, denying and demanding proof, and then, when that proof was presented, they challenged the proof. When every effort failed, the defense outmaneuvered the ...

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Bryan Kohberger, suspect of killing University of Idaho students in Moscow, Idaho, agrees to a deal in exchange for no death ...

Bryan Kohberger, the murder suspect in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, is expected to plead guilty ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...