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

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

Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

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

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

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

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 forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

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.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised ...