A coalition of civil society organisations has today urged the Malaysian government to take immediate action to prevent the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering a high school friend was put to death by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. There were 25 executions in the ...

A Madison man who fatally shot his 25-year-old son in 2023 after his son allegedly hit and shoved him during an argument over ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in front of the ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...