Lindsay Sandiford was convicted of drug smuggling from Thailand to Indonesia in 2013 and handed a death sentence ...

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.

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 ...

The use of the death penalty against U.S. combat veterans manifests a paradox in American culture.

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process ...

The power to seek death is the greatest power we give prosecutors. But the process for selecting death penalty cases in Maricopa County is shrouded in secrecy. Watch as ABC15 Chief Investigator ...

Should SA hold an emergency referendum to reinstate the death penalty punishment, particularly for violent crimes against minors?

Texas Governor Greg Abbott advocates for the death penalty for two Venezuelan illegal immigrants, Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez and Maikel Perozo, accused in the hit-and-run death of Ava ...

Several Tennessee death row inmates are now suing the state over its new death penalty protocol. In the lawsuit, they argued pentobarbital has been shown to “pose a high risk of a torturous ...

Experts have weighed in on some of the most popular execution methods used in the US despite how painful they can be. While you might assume that death row is something of the past, 27 states out of ...