Utah's Governor Spencer Cox announced the state will seek the death penalty for Charlie Kirk's assassin, releasing video evidence of the rooftop jump. Utah, one of 27 states with capital punishment, allows lethal injection and,

The status of the death penalty in North Carolina could receive renewed attention after President Trump called for the suspect in the Charlotte light rail stabbing to receive a death sentence.

Khalif provides legal context on how capital punishment cases are pursued in both states, the challenges of bringing them to trial, and why executions have been stalled in North Carolina since 2006.

Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in front of hundreds of young people, many of whom recording on their phones at the time. Moments later, videos of his assassination could be seen on social media. TikTok says it is working to avoid those videos circulating across users' feeds.

President Donald Trump's plan to impose the death penalty for all murder convictions in Washington, D.C. has been deemed unconstitutional and would overwhelm the legal system, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

President Donald Trump is calling for the death penalty for Decarlos Brown Jr., the mentally ill, homeless man charged with the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutsk.

A court document detailing probable cause for the arrest of Dennis Mitchell in Officer Hunter Simoncic's death is not available for public view, a judge ruled.

I interviewed Charlie multiple times and our exchanges were sometimes intense. I pressed him, he pushed back, but in the end he was always cordial. Always willing to engage,” she said. His killing is the latest in a string of acts of political violence — from the attempted assassination of then-candidate Trump in Butler,