KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to ...

A viral post claims that Ex-China Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in Latin America. But there’s no evidence he ever made such a statement.

Public executions were common during the Taliban’s first rule from 1996 to 2001, with most carried out publicly in sports ...

Two of the men were shot around six to seven times by a male relative of the victims in front of spectators in Qala-i-Naw, ...

A man at the supermax prison in Florence who has been charged with killing another inmate may face the death penalty, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new lethal injection protocol.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado to pursue the death penalty for an inmate charged with first-degree murder.

The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against a federal inmate following the authorization of Attorney General ...

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for an inmate at a maximum-security facility in Colorado, the DOJ announced, ...