U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won't seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo ...

U.S. prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Federal prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for three top Mexican cartel leaders, including Rafael Caro Quintero, ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Mexico sends drug lord Caro Quintero and 28 others to the U.S. Macías escaped from a Guayaquil prison where he was serving a 34-year sentence for drug trafficking, organized crime, and murder.

Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican drug lord notorious for his role in the 1985 murder of a D.E.A. agent, was expelled from Mexico and arraigned in Brooklyn on drug trafficking charges in February.