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

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

Brad Sigmon, the condemned South Carolina prisoner, opted for firing squad over the state’s primary method of electrocution ...

EXCLUSIVE: As a brilliant new TV drama stars Lucy Boynton as the last woman to be hanged, its author reveals the fury of the ...

The IDF must demonstrate that even in the face of unspeakable horrors, it remains committed to its principles.

More than half of Canadians still support capital punishment for murder cases—will that ever translate into policy?

"The process itself is the punishment," said Sushma Raman ... Media lawyer Thomas Burke, author of the book "Anti-SLAPP ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

Iran carried out at least 975 executions last year in a "horrifying escalation" of capital punishment, according to ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

Abortion rights groups fear punishment for women who have abortions and governments tracking pregnancies. Bills to implement those ideas have been discussed in state legislatures this month, although ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...