A woman was shot to death early Friday in her Anaheim apartment, and her estranged husband was arrested on suspicion of murder, police said.
An Orange County jury voted unanimously today to send convicted child killer Theodore Frank to the gas chamber for the 1978 torture-slaying of 2-year-old Amy Sue Seitz.
crimes even where the death penalty is not specifically authorized by Congress.
A jury had convicted Theodore Frank in 1979 of torturing and murdering a 2-year-old Camarillo girl, and he had been sentenced to death.
Authorities are investigating whether the on-the-job death this week of a 39-year-old man at a
inquiry into thousands of capital cases to determine whether death sentences have been imposed discriminatorily in California.
the proposed return of the death penalty by a 21-vote margin.
Al Capone couldn't kill him. Frank Nitti couldn't intimidate him.
A senior surgeon at New York Hospital, apparently despondent over a divorce, plunged to his death
the Medicare program in California released Friday the death rates from common diseases for Medicare patients at each of the state's hospitals.
The nation's death rate from pneumonia and influenza, which reached an all-time low in 1982, has begun to rise again for reasons as yet unexplained.
the Tustin church elder was shot to death in a phone booth, police reported.
Liechtenstein has finally abolished the death penality--a century after it held its last execution.
Authorities are searching for a parolee with a history of sex crimes whom they interviewed once and now believe is connected to the strangulation of a 7-year-old girl, court documents revealed.
The family of a 40-year-old man, whose death in a Los Angeles Police Department holding cell
Terrible" was killed in a 1943 uprising by inmates of the Treblinka death camp.
Four days after he was questioned by homicide investigators in connection with the murder of a 7-year-old Phoebe Ho of South Pasadena, convicted sex offender Warren James Bland stole a Long Beach woman's automobile and handgun and then fled, according to police.
West Germany attached a condition to considering a recent U.S. request for extradition of an alleged terrorist charged with murder.
Susana Oviedo stared at a recent picture of her brother and began sobbing.
Riverside County officials have rejected Liberace's death certificate and plan to perform an