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, ...

Conor McGregor has shared a video of an aspiring US politician who has called for the public execution of illegal immigrants ...

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.

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 ...

In a video posted on X, Gomez simulated shooting a migrant, presenting it as her proposed solution for those who commit ...

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

A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran's capital Saturday in a rare attack targeting the judiciary, state ...

Reprieve said it was the highest ever recorded. “This reform is built on a house of cards that is built on record numbers of executions,” said Jeed Basyouni, who works with Reprieve.

Prosecutors in Arizona are seeking to execute a prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty after a ...