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

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will not seek the death penalty for accused Mexican drug traffickers Rafael ...

The U.S. attorney general directed prosecutors not to seek capital punishment against three reputed cartel leaders, including ...

El Mayo' is accused of co-founding the Sinaloa Cartel alongside convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman ...

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 been a significant point of friction with Mexico’s government.

Drug cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero, one of 29 cartel members extradited from Mexico to the U.S. on Thursday, is reportedly set to be arraigned in U.S. federal court on Friday.

Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has sent 29 drug cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States as the Trump ...

MEXICO CITY — Drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, captured by Mexican forces, was notified this weekend that a process to extradite him to the United States for crimes including the murder of a DEA ...

There are 9 deaths reported but Rafael Caro Quintero was not inside the aircraft at the time. CommanderJose Rafael Ojeda Duran confirmed the deceased and also discarded the drug lord's involvement.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday they won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican cartel kingpin ...