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Bryan Kohberger can face death penalty if he is convicted in the slaying of 4 Idaho college students
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, can face the death penalty, a judge ruled Wednesday.
University of Idaho victims' families seeking donations to attend Bryan Kohberger's murder trial
The parents of Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves are now requesting donations from the public in order to be present in the courtroom.
Texas mom of 14 on death row 'actually innocent' after new evidence and Kim Kardashian intervention
Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and...
Fla. businessman charged with murder, could face death penalty after estranged wife vanished from Spain home
Ana Hedao Knezevich, 40, vanished from her Madrid apartment on Feb. 2.
Prosecutors to Bryan Kohberger: Take your pick between the firing squad or the needle
Bryan Kohberger is back in court Thursday as his lawyers argue to take the death penalty off the table, claiming he would face an inhumane execution by firing squad.
Texas father's execution for murder of 2-year-old daughter could be first in US over shaken baby syndrome after judge's ruling
“Let me just say, Robert is an innocent man.”
Supreme Court appears divided on fate of death row inmate Richard Glossip after nine halted executions
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday revisited the bizarre Oklahoma death penalty case revolving around Richard Glossip, in which the state attorney general and defendant are on the same side, but...
Japanese court acquits former boxer in 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice.
Missouri Supreme Court, governor refuse to halt execution of man convicted in 1998 killing
Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson, a former sheriff who has never granted clemency in a death penalty case, rejected Williams' request to spare him and convert his sentence to life...
Alabama sets execution date for convicted ax murderer who killed 5 people
"I was fairly tried and convicted. I agreed with the court’s decision."
PhD student accused of killing her friend's newborn baby could face death penalty if convicted
A head CT scan showed Leon suffered a severe skull fracture to the left side of the head, along with multiple brain bleeds.
South Carolina to execute first death row inmate in 13 years — and he can choose how he dies
Freddie Eugene Owens will have a choice of lethal injection, electrocution or a firing squad for his scheduled September execution -- the state's first in 13 years.
Monster convicted of raping, killing woman with girlfriend turns white as a ghost as he's sentenced to death
"To do less may have sent the wrong message," the DA said.
Utah murderer who killed woman is put to death by lethal injection in state’s first execution since 2010
After decades of failed appeals, Honie’s execution warrant was signed in June despite defense objections to the planned lethal drug.
Nancy Pelosi's bizarre Biden Mount Rushmore comment: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 7, 2024
NY Post readers discuss Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that President Biden should be carved onto Mount Rushmore.
Sept. 11 terrorists spared death penalty: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 3, 2024
NY Post readers discuss federal prosecutors reach a plea deal with the alleged masterminds of Sept. 11 attacks.
'Deadpool Killer' — who murdered 2 women 'for the sake of killing' — flooded with messages from lovesick fangirls
‘Deadpool Killer’ Wade Wilson has lovesick ladies begging a judge to save his life — even though he brutally slaughtered two women in 2019 just 'for the sake of killing'
Kin of slain cop slam soft-on-crime DA for ruling out death penalty for accused killer
The family of slain Philadelphia Police Officer Chris Fitzgerald wants his accused killer to face the death penalty -- but say controversial District Attorney Larry Krasner won't even return their...
Man with swastika face tattoos found guilty of brutal strangling of two Florida women just hours apart
A Florida man with disturbing face and neck tattoos — including swastikas — was convicted Wednesday of murdering two Florida women who were brutally strangled within hours of each other.
Accused double murderer allowed to cover swastika and skeleton face tattoos — but they're still showing
Wade Wilson, 30, won the right to cover "numerous and varied tattoos ... that might be objectionable to members of the potential jury pool."