The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face something that is a rarity for Minnesota but could become more common under the Trump administration: the ...

He is charged in the fatal shootings of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, at their Brooklyn Park home, and ...

When law enforcement searched the abandoned Buick, a handwritten letter directed to the FBI, read that “Dr. Vance Luther ...

State and federal prosecutors sometimes both pursue criminal cases for the same offense, even if they differ on the death penalty.

Minn. abolished the death penalty but Vance Boelter faces state and federal charges in Melissa Hortman's death so he may face ...

Police chief who helped arrest Minnesota shooting suspect describes moment they caught him: ‘We had made his world so small’ ...

Again, the death penalty was different for nobility ... Between 1911 and 1917, eight more states abolished capital punishment (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Arizona, Missouri ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced plans Tuesday to push for a constitutional amendment that would reinstate the death penalty for first-degree murder in Minnesota. “As a dad and a governor, I am fed up with ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

May 7 (UPI) --The U.S. government on Wednesday announced it will seek the death penalty for an Oklahoma ... arrested a man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses ...

His lawyers are attempting to preclude the death penalty from being used in the federal case. Thompson, who lived in Minnesota, was in New York City for a publicly announced shareholder conference.