U.S. Said to Seek Execution for 6 in Sept. 11 Case
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The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees who will likely face war-crimes charges would present new challenges to a troubled system that has yet to begin a single trial.
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Paul K. Charlton, one of nine U.S. attorneys fired last year, told members of Congress yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has been overzealous in ordering federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty, including in an Arizona murder case in which no body had been recovered.
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A group of human rights lawyers has filed a lawsuit seeking the release of more than 500 unnamed terrorism suspects held by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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An apparently suicidal man held responsible for a train derailment that killed at least 11 people Wednesday faces multiple murder counts that could bring him the death penalty, the Los Angeles County district attorney said today.
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Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
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Spanish prosecutors are seeking a total  of 222,000 years in prison and nearly $1.17 billion in fines  for three suspects accused of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks on the United States.
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Six Muslim militants face execution within weeks for killing two judges in Bangladesh after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal against their sentences in a deadly bombing campaign case, an official said.
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Pakistan is offering rewards for six suspected terrorists, two of them wanted for assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf.
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WASHINGTON - An appeals court ruled Monday that the government can seek to execute Zacarias Moussaoui if he is convicted on terror charges but said he must be given fair access to al-Qaida witness statements that might support his defense.    Moussaoui, the only U.S...
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WASHINGTON -- Relatives of Sept. 11 victims yesterday urged quick congressional approval of a national intelligence director and other reforms recommended by the federal commission that investigated the 2001 attacks.
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Federal prosecutors are asking the judge in the long-delayed case against admitted al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui to begin the trial in six months.
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U.S. military officials have held initial hearings for three terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site said Friday it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the Sept.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused in the 20001 attacks will be shown all the evidence against them, the Pentagon said. The death penalty will be sought.
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A trial into the almost four-year-old bombing of a U.S. warship in Aden Harbor that killed 17 Navy sailors concluded Wednesday with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for six defendants.
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September 11 victims who sued airlines and their security contractors will have their cases heard for the first time almost six years after the hijacked plane attacks on the United States, a federal judge has ruled.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.