Death Penalty – Virgin Islands Free Press

Prosecutors mull death penalty for Aleisia Owens in killing of toddler

by John McCarthy
April 2, 2025April 2, 2025

PITTSBURGH — Prosecutors acknowledge privately they are “hamstrung” over whether to include the death penalty in the criminal complaint against a Pennsylvania woman charged with murder in the poisoning death of 18-month-old Iris Alfera. Sources…

2 Trinidadian Pirates Sentenced To Death By Guyanese Court For Vicious 2018 Attack

by John McCarthy
February 3, 2023February 3, 2023

GEORGETOWN — A Guyanese court handed down death sentences for two men found guilty of high seas piracy attacks that killed seven fishermen off the nation’s coast in 2018, and authorities said they have broken…