Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Steven Nelson, convicted in the killing of an Arlington priest in 2011, is set to be executed on Tuesday. If you cross paths with these formidable fighters, you better bring your A-game. Welcome to ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities on Tuesday escorted an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country to the airport in Jakarta as his return to ...

Sporting an angry bloodshot eye and deep scratches and bruises on his head, this is the extraordinary custody photo of a killer who followed his victim home after an argument at a pub. Kevin ...

Boyzone’s Keith Duffy has said Liam Payne’s death was an ‘eye-opener to everybody in the music business’, adding that artists should have access to mental health support. Appearing at the ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence ...