Japan executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," for murdering nine people in 2017, marking the country’s ...

Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Japan's justice ministry declined to confirm hanging. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Two Utah death row cases tied to murders in the 1980s are seeing new movement, with one facing a possible retrial and another ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...