The West Bengal government has appealed to the Calcutta High Court`s (HC) Division Bench against the trial court`s life ...

ZAMBOANGA 1st District Rep. Khymer Adan Olaso filed a bill that will impose the penalty of death by firing squad for public ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an appeal in Calcutta High Court challenging the life sentence imposed on ...

Brenda Andrew, a former Sunday school teacher, argued that evidence about her personal life wasn't fair to use during her ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

The only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, Brenda Andrew, was granted a new hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing a woman more than 60 times, stuffing her body in a suitcase, ...

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.