Former death row inmate Karl Allen Fontenot faces a retrial over the kidnapping and murder of an Ada convenience store clerk ...

Iran has been putting prisoners to death at a pace unseen since 1988, when it executed thousands at the end of the Iran-Iraq ...

The article contains details of child abuse and murder. Reader discretion is advised. A 35-year-old death row inmate was executed on Thursday night for the 2008 killing of a toddler. Blaine Milam was ...

The Commonwealth is one of 27 states that still use capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. A Representative is aiming to change that with a new piece of legislation. Currently, in ...

Jacob ‘Jack’ Nestor, 67, and his wife Matilda ‘Dolly’ Nestor, 66, were working in their business just outside Wynwood when ...

Two years after the crime that stole an innocent life, Sullins offered his last words, expressing a wish to reunite with ...

The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of natural causes, according to the South Carolina Department ...

Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, once convicted in the 1991 Austin killings, could access restitution if formally declared innocent under Texas law.

Some 50 prisoners in Iraq face possible execution on Monday following conviction on terrorism-related crimes in unfair trials, United Nations human rights experts said on Friday.

Joseph Naso, the convicted murderer known as the " Alphabet Killer," is once again under scrutiny following new claims he may ...

The executions follow the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June, which ended with Tehran vowing it would target its enemies at home ...

Dubai (United Arab Emirates): Iran executed six death-row inmates Saturday it alleged carried out attacks in the country's ...