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 ...

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

He also urged President-Elect Donald Trump to execute the notorious Boston Marathon bomber as one of the first acts of his ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

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.

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...

The Supreme Court also promised in August to space out the executions in five week intervals to give prison staff and defense ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Nov. 13 executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth ...

A perennial bill to abolish Ohio’s death penalty got another hearing Wednesday morning, but there’s little time left for it ...

Two wounded patients were killed after police officers and vigilantes attacked an ambulance in Haiti on Monday, according to ...