Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. Ward ...

A group of Philadelphia attorneys specializing in capital murder cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restrict ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Capital punishment methods include beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting. In some countries, children under the age of 18 are executed, even though it is a violation of ...

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Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

Although Nigeria is a signatory to ICCPR, which provides guidance on the application of the death penalty, it has yet to abolish ...

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call state-sponsored "vengeance." ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...