Hanson arrived in Oklahoma to face a likely execution by the state for his murder conviction. The Biden administration previously blocked the move.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

The message is a direction to the federal government to use conditions of confinement as additional punishment — which is unconstitutional ... general to look for opportunities to bring state capital ...

Aaron Gunches will be the first person executed by Arizona in more than two years. His execution was scheduled for March 19.

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 ...

The performer who staged an on-field protest during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX performance has learned his fate, the Associated Press reported. During the performance, the individual—who ...