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

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

The West Virginia Legislature is moving a bill that would bring the death penalty back to the state, more than 65 years since ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

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

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

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

Dhananjay Deshmukh, brother of slain sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, advocates for capital punishment for his sibling's killers. Santosh was murdered after resisting extortion efforts. Key suspect and ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced the introduction of capital punishment for religious conversions of girls ...