South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

Brad Sigmon, set for execution by firing squad on March 7, seeks a delay, citing concerns over South Carolina’s lethal ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, has commuted the sentence of a death row inmate to life in ...

Activists of the Shiv Sena on Tuesday staged a protest here against the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh and demanded capital punishment for the accused involved in the crime. The party’s Pune unit ...

Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is "unavoidable," according ...