While Section 30(1) of Nigeria’s Constitution recognises the death penalty as a form of punishment for heinous crimes, the ...

Legislation recently proposed by freshman U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., seeks to restore a sense of balance by ...

The case of a victim’s mother and one of the longest-serving death row prisoners shows how capital appeals can seem both ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

Saint Mary’s College president Katie Conboy announced the class of 2025 commencement speaker and this year’s honorary degree ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was put to death by firing squad ...

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Adel Ramos pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of officer Tara O’Sullivan, but a jury deadlocked last year on whether he should be put to death.

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

The Madhya Pradesh government intends to make a provision to slap the death penalty on those involved in the religious conversion of minor girls, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on the occasion of ...

Hyderabad, A court in Nalgonda district of Telangana on Monday handed out death penalty to one of the accused in the sensational honour killing of a Dalit man in 2018. The Second ADJ cum SC/ST ...