America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes directs Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger in this Cannes competition film, an unadorned ...

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

Provence, the morbid were up at dawn one day last week, hurrying to the square in front of the ancient Hotel de Ville. Squads ...

Glossip, 63, was released from incarceration for the first time since his arrest in Oklahoma nearly 30 years ago.

Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to ...

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

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.

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed ...

Playwright Lauren Gunderson is giving France’s Reign of Terror a sharp-tongued makeover with The Revolutionists, next up at ...

Florida plans to execute James E. Hitchcock, which would be the state's sixth execution in 2026. The state has faced scrutiny over its accelerated pace of executions and its lethal injection protocols ...