On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse the last-hour commutations for death row murderers last month by former President Joe Biden, directing state officials to pursue the death ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown at the Holman Correctional Facility.

One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Tuesday escorted an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country to the airport in Jakarta as his return to ...

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has said the decision to abolish death penalty ultimately lies with the Nigerians. Kalu said this when a delegation from the ...

Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League grad charged in the execution-style shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has added a free-of-charge death penalty expert to his defense team. Mangione's ...