The Florida Supreme Court has affirmed the denial of a successive postconviction motion filed by death row inmate Samuel L. Smithers, ruling that his advanced age of 72 does not constitute cruel and ...

A local prosecutor in South Carolina plans to seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing ...

Loved ones, prosecutors and officers reacted with relief after a jury returned a death sentence for Joshua Rocha in the 2022 ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and ...

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

New Hampshire's only inmate on death row has been granted a rare opportunity to plead his case for a life sentence before the state's highest court. In a brief single-page order handed down Monday, ...

The government said former President Joseph Kabila had collaborated with Rwanda and the M23 rebel group that seized key ...

A court in Jharkhand sentenced Chunnu Manjhi to death for murdering five family members over a land dispute. Convicted under IPC Section 302, Chunnu believed he received less money from a land sale.

A Chinese court has handed down death sentences to 11 members of the Ming family, a group that authorities say helped ...

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate that ran a gambling operation worth $1.4 billion and for killing disobedient workers.

U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international law.