Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood is calling for capital murder to be the default charge for murder suspects.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Rep. Paul Gosar has reintroduced legislation seeking the death penalty for fentanyl dealers whose drugs result in death.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months — and Gov ...

On 4 June 2025, a young couple in Aceh, Indonesia, were publicly flogged 100 times after being found guilty of engaging in ...

SAN MATEO COUNTY District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe will seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing seven people and injuring another in a ...

THE remains of a roughly 1,200-year-old woman found on the shores of the River Thames have exposed the brutal punishment ...

A leading Jewish anti-death penalty group, L'chaim, is calling on federal prosecutors to reject capital punishment for Elias ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...