NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin ...

The U.S. attorney general directed prosecutors not to seek capital punishment against three reputed cartel leaders, including ...

U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won't seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will not seek the death penalty for accused Mexican drug traffickers Rafael ...

Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas.

Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...

The Justice Department will seek to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, on ...

James “Jimmy” Robertson, convicted of killing his parents in Rock Hill in 1997, wants to drop an appeal and die after South ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has been a significant point of friction with Mexico’s government.

A horrific crime leads to get-tough policies to ensure the tragedy never happens again. That happened in 2018, after a ...

Byron Black's execution marked the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest, experts ...

Ismael Zambada Garcia was arrested last year in a bizarre and mysterious situation after he was brought to the U.S. in a ...