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

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

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

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

Iranian state media say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital in a rare attack targeting the ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

Mouath al-Kasaesbeh was locked in a cage and burned alive by IS after being captured when his plane was shot down, with ...

The Representative who introduced the bill, Bruce Skaug, said it is "less problematic" than execution by legal drugs.

Former Mozambican presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane wants the people to set themselves up as an "autonomous court" and issue "judgements" against the police without the intervention of the ...