For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over reports of more than 170 individuals being transferred to Angenga ...

Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional. The ...

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted death row inmate Christopher Roseboro's sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...