All legal options — including the death penalty — are back on the table as South Carolina prepares for a second Alex Murdaugh ...

The law formalizes “the systematic, state-sanctioned killing of Palestinian detainees,” human rights advocates warned.

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

Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys are questioning a statement from the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office about his fate after a retrial.

Richard Glossip spent 30 years on death row and faced three halted execution dates before the US Supreme Court overturned his ...

A DEATH row inmate has been set free after nearly 30 years on death row to the point where he’s had three final meals. The ...

Prosecutors plan to retry Alex Murdaugh, saying no one is above the law.

Tiana Krasniqi, from London, told how she has plagued by 'flashbacks' of James Broadnax's final moments since he was executed ...

Israel has enforced a new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, after the territory’s top military commander signed the order bringing the measure into force on ...

Amnesty International's annual report on capital punishment documented a surge in global executions to their highest level ...

Reality TV superstar Kim Kardashian is used to grabbing headlines, but not usually like this. This week, Kim’s publicist confirmed that she had helped secure the release of a former death row inmate ...