"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

The government is trying to cancel a plea deal for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the attacks. But a clause ...

The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...

Alan Eugene Miller’s execution was the fifth in the last week, drawing national scrutiny to convictions and execution ...

All five men were executed within one week in five different states, a period political scientist Austin Sarat condemned as ...

In the aftermath of Williams’ execution there has been an outcry from the public due to the doubts over his conviction, ...

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was found guilty in 1968 of multiple murders.