The Kerala High Court has stated that proceedings that may result in punishments such as death, imprisonment and forfeiture ...

Amid a slew of new bills during Florida’s Legislative special session this week tackling illegal immigration, one stands out ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills advanced Wednesday by key House and Senate committees.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

A proposal moving through Florida’s Legislature would require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Families of victims and Sikh leaders on Wednesday welcomed former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar’s conviction in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots murder case, demanding the harshest punishment to him. Kumar, 79, has ...