An advocacy group is urging Florida to stop executing veterans convicted of murder. Veterans are center stage in two of ...

More than 84 per cent of respondents believed that capital punishment deters the trafficking of drugs into Singapore.

President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

El Mayo,” the elderly Mexican drug lord who took over “El Chapo’s” notorious cartel, skirted the death penalty in Brooklyn ...

Accused Mexican drug kingpin and El Chapo partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to running a ...

In 2000, it cost about $24 million for each execution via the electric chair, as reported by the Palm Street Post.

PANAMA CITY— A man on death row for a 2008 murder in Panama City has killed himself in prison. Matthew Caylor, 50, had served ...

Congo’s public prosecutor has asked for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia ...

Sean Finnegan pleaded guilty to raping two children, receiving an additional 50 years without parole on top of his death ...

A federal judge has kept in place the firearms charges against the gunman who fired a Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic rifle to ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to review the sentencing of Vasant Sampat Dupare, a death row convict punished for raping and ...

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for the three people accused of robbing, killing and leaving a Dallas-Fort Worth ...