Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

The court had issued a death warrant for Gunches nearly two years ago, but the sentence wasn’t carried out because the ...

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups called for a general strike in the western Kurdish areas (Rojhelat) on Wednesday to condemn ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is rescinding its ...

Drug Used in Federal Executions Under Trump May Cause 'Unnecessary Pain and Suffering,' Garland Says WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions ...