South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death on Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials could not get the drugs needed for lethal ...

The court, however, limits it to 'special and exceptional circumstances' and bans its use for mentally ill defendants ...

Freddie Owens, 46, was executed in South Carolina for the murders of convenience store clerk Irene Graves and fellow inmate ...

Campaigners against the death penalty have long argued that the practice, carried out by shooting an inmate in the heart from ...

The Chhattisgarh government has shunted out Kabirdham Collector and Superintendent of Police (SP) after incidents of mob violence and custodial death in the district triggered a row, an official said.

The Congress has given a call for a state-wide bandh today to protest against the 'deteriorating' law and order situation in ...

A man convicted of a 1997 murder died by lethal injection Friday in the southeastern US state of South Carolina, the state's first death row inmate executed in 13 years.