The AMA’s brief doesn’t support either party; it offers justices background and confirms that “testimony used to determine which method of execution would reduce physical suffering would constitute ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

The already dying capital punishment system could be eradicated much sooner if evangelical Christians would stop supporting ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should be applied only to the most grievous offenses, a ...

A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on capital punishment in South ...

Here, we look at what is at stake - and the size of any potential punishment. What is the nature of the charges? The greatest proportion of the charges relate to rules that require clubs to ...

Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials took its last "death chamber" offline Wednesday morning. The small room, located inside the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla is where ...

In Ford v. Wainwright, the court held in 1986 that “insane” people could not be sentenced to die; Atkins v. Virginia in 2002 ...

The outlet also reported the death chamber will be preserved for history as it was when it was active. It stated the stopped ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali’s capital, but some soldiers were killed. The army chief of staff ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s army says a military training camp in the capital has been attacked. Col. Marima Sagara, deputy director of the army’s communications service, said it received ...