Raymond Johnson’s execution in Oklahoma is the first of five executions scheduled across the country over eight days.

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Texas on Thursday executed a 53-year-old man for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman, marking the state's 600th execution of ...

China is the country with the highest number of capital punishments, according to Amnesty International, although the actual ...

Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

Kim Kardashian, in an Instagram story, asked Gov. Bill Lee to hold off on executing Tony Carruthers to test DNA evidence.

(Beirut)—Saudi Arabia’s execution of more than 2,000 people over the last decade in many cases violates Saudi and international law and belies the government’s claims of reform, 36 groups including ...

Convicted serial rapist and murderer William Lewis Reece is back on Oklahoma soil, where he now awaits execution at the ...

Raymond Eugene Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and arson in the 2007 deaths of Brooke Whitaker and her ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The ...