Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe has voiced her support for reintroducing the death penalty in the UK, following one of ...

An upstate lawmaker is calling for an investigation into South Carolina's most recent death penalty case. Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad last month, the second time in the state's history.

A bill signed into law Tuesday by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp would make it easier to keep people with intellectual disabilities off death row when they’re convicted of a crime.

Death penalty abolitionists rallied at Legislative Hall on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to support House Bill 35, which ...

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post. (photo: Nick Fewings/Unsplash) ...

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

The UK economy could be about to receive a £50bn cash injection after Britain’s biggest pension funds pledged to redirect ...

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Last year a Connecticut firm said it stopped manufacturing a drug used during lethal injections of criminals, but its website ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people ...

While directing reinstatement of a government employee terminated without charge sheet or disciplinary inquiry, the Rajasthan High Court said that an order of termination in service law is akin ...

The Death Penalty Information Center report reveals a disturbing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty ...