On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Ms Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were knifed in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, days ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

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Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...