South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

The federal death penalty will continue to exist under the second Trump administration. The president-elect’s ability to make ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

Speaking to UN News’s Julia Foxen during her visit to UN Headquarters in New York, Ms. Sato highlighted the issue of ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

UNAMA issued a statement calling for an immediate moratorium on all executions, emphasizing that public displays of capital punishment are inconsistent with Afghanistan’s human rights commitments.

Iran hanged a 26-year-old man for a second time Wednesday months after a previous execution was halted half a minute in, an ...