South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Ramos pleaded guilty to killing Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan, but a prior jury deadlocked on whether he should be put to death.

However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...

Public opinion on the death penalty remains surprisingly strong, despite decades without it on the books, according ... in four (77 per cent) think capital punishment is “always appropriate ...

California has not carried out an execution since 2006 but the death penalty remains on the books, and prosecutors continue to seek capital punishment in expensive trials that add millions to the ...