An Indiana lawmaker is moving forward with legislation that would authorize execution by firing squad under limited circumstances, expanding the methods available for carrying out capital punishment ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

DeWine promised almost a year ago to make some sort of announcement about Ohio's death penalty, but he's been silent since.

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, is the only known person to have survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of ...

At 7 p.m. Saturday his three hunting partners called the Coast Guard after searching for him and he didn’t show up at camp. By 1:45 a.m. a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter had landed the search party on ...

Woodstock lost one of its great champions on Saturday, November 22, when — a few weeks shy of 88 — Douglas Craig James: musician, collector, lover of the arts, and increasingly reclusive ...

The family of a Colombian fisherman has filed a formal complaint over a death attributed to a U.S. military strike on a boat ...

Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa have been found guilty of murder in the 1987 killing of activist and ...

"The rumours of Imran Khan's death are greatly exaggerated, but the Pakistani establishment’s desire to erase him from the ...

Author and historian John Thompson argues a recent book on lethal injections shows deep, systemic flaws in Oklahoma's ...

UTAH, UNITED STATES: Utah death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, died of apparent natural causes on November 26 after ...