Humans are perhaps more alike than they are different, even when it comes to last meal requests. Here's what people on death row have asked to eat.

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 87 years ago by the federal government. The 1938 execution was the first since Michigan abolished the death penalty nearly 100 years ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

Wikimedia Commons/Carol M. Highsmith Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawaii Ancient Hawaii had a death penalty ...

Intent for death penalty announced against Zuni man He is charged federally with two deaths along with several other violent crimes related to kidnapping and assaults Beginning of dialog window.

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

He described the death penalty’s use as “egregious” and “unfathomable,” especially in cases involving the innocent. While some governments advocate for the death penalty as a necessary deterrent ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent himself in court.

Permitting judges to impose death is “extraordinarily unfair and it skews the process,” he said. There’s also a racial component when it comes to the death penalty in Missouri, he continued.

Ronnie Walker will soon find out whether he'll be sentenced to die for murdering a 14-year-old girl in Tampa more than three years ago.