As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a ...

Tehran, United Arab Emirates: In a rare attack targeting the judiciary, two prominent hard-line judges were fatally shot in ...

The secrecy surrounding the return of death penalty executions in Indiana isn’t exactly doing much to bolster public ...

Late last month Biden commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on death row to life without the possibility of parole. Now ...

Five political prisoners held in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj have issued a condemnation of the Supreme Court's decision to ...