Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since ...

Alabama plans to carry out another nitrogen gas execution in August, continuing its use of the controversial method amid ongoing debates over mental health concerns.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

June 26 (UPI) -- Ten Iranian and Lebanese suspects will be tried in absentia for killing 85 and injuring more than 300 at the ...

Two Utah death row cases tied to murders in the 1980s are seeing new movement, with one facing a possible retrial and another ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

The federal case against a Stoughton cop accused of grooming, impregnating and then killing a Canton woman named Sandra ...

Inmate Lemaricus Davidson contests a Tennessee law in court, relating to his death penalty case for the Christian-Newsom ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

The highly anticipated capital murder trial of the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students in November ...

On June 16, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution of David Lee Roberts, 59. Roberts is set to die by nitrogen ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.