Bombshell new evidence has given Brittany Holberg, 52, a reprieve - a case which a judge in Texas, US, says serves as a ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

"I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty," Brad ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

South Carolina’s execution law says prisoners will be killed by electrocution unless they choose the firing squad or lethal ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Rogers police have arrested seven people in connection to the deadly shooting of a man late Friday night, prosecutors confirmed.

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 ...

Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter got it right almost 70 years ago: “A shocking crime puts law to its severest ...

At a program in the city of Bhopal, India, to mark International Women’s Day, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said ...