The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

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

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

The West Bengal government has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a death sentence for Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the RG ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their ...

"Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty. Don't tell Mum anything," his father recalled, reiterating his son's innocence. Later, opposition activist group 1500 Tasvir published an ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Minister of Justice Mutamba, who is overseeing the executions, said late Sunday the “third batch will be executed, so the first two have already undergone the measure of execution by the death penalty ...

Marcus Freeman made quite the gamble with this late play between Notre Dame and Georgia. But, as the saying goes, fortune certainly favors the bold. During the late moments of Thursday’s Sugar ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

Yet in a 2018 report, the Washington-D.C.-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center ... refusal to release the new protocol, given that background, as “mystifying." ...