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.

Zamboanga City Rep. Khymer Adan Olaso sought the imposition of the death penalty by firing squad for government officials convicted of "corruption and ...

In a surprise party planned by family and friends, Randall Gentry was honored Saturday with the Sagamore of the Wabash award.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

Again, the death penalty was different for nobility ... of its gallows and the building of the nation’s first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890, and even ...

The journalists charged with covering the machinations of lawmakers at the Arizona Capitol would be hard pressed each week to select the most bizarre statement made by a member of the Legislature.