The announcement of Los Angeles County D.A. Nathan Hochman reverses the policy of his predecessor, George Gascón, who did not ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling ...

District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Tuesday that his office will again allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty in ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman's office announced Tuesday that under limited circumstances, prosecutors could ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.

Delivering on a campaign promise, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors to seek capital ...

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SB 990 would raise the age threshold for capital murder eligibility from under 10 years old to 15 years old. It now heads to ...

Death penalty cases in Delaware were put on hold in 2016 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down provisions in Florida's ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman has reinstated the death penalty as a prosecutorial option in murder ...

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...