South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

Over a dozen states wrote in support of Alabama’s appeal, claiming that protections against cruel and unusual punishment have ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man who pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of Sacramento police Officer Tara ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

At a North Carolina rally, Trump vowed to "protect women" by shutting down the border. “The suburban women are under attack,” ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...

In the wake of a tragic rape and murder case at RG Kar Medical College, junior doctors are calling for CBI action and the ...

Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project, speaks with reporters after a hearing on the death ...

Junior doctors in Kolkata are demanding strict action from the CBI and capital punishment for those involved in the rape and ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...