South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...

Haryana Police on Monday said they have arrested one accused in connection with the murder of Congress worker Himani Narwal.

Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is "unavoidable," according ...

For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital punishment. In the past, they focused on human rights issues such as ...

On February 15, the father of a minor girl filed a complaint of sexual assault and blackmail against several people. Later, ...