Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises ...

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

Reprieve said it was the highest ever recorded. “This reform is built on a house of cards that is built on record numbers of executions,” said Jeed Basyouni, who works with Reprieve.

Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

The court had issued a death warrant for Gunches nearly two years ago, but the sentence wasn’t carried out because the ...

The secrecy surrounding the return of death penalty executions in Indiana isn’t exactly doing much to bolster public ...

Tehran, United Arab Emirates: In a rare attack targeting the judiciary, two prominent hard-line judges were fatally shot in ...

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn ...