Edith Thompson was executed for the murder of her husband, who was stabbed by her young lover. Indian nurse Nimisha Priya will be executed unless the victim's family accepts "blood money" to ...

26 years ago, on this date, Christopher Rios, aka Big Punisher, put out his first LP, Capital Punishment, on Loud Records.

Since the state’s current capital punishment law was adopted in 1981, only 56 of some 341 death sentences have been carried out. In the past five years, zero executions have taken place.

“Damning.” That’s how Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost describes his own report on the state of Ohio’s capital punishment system. Yost paints a picture of a death penalty system that is “broken,” ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended ... Price’s predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, supported capital punishment but had not sought it for years by the end of her ...

Prison guards, judges, jurors and prison workers have beseeched Mike Parson to commute capital punishment to life without parole With less than a week until Brian Dorsey is scheduled to be ...

I thought he could change colors to manipulate you. … So my theory was, he made it up to try to justify what he did." The ...

A new, more painful form of capital punishment; a new, more damaging mode of incarceration (perhaps such as solitary con- finement); a new, more demeaning restriction on the freedom of movement of ...

A year after Gov. Bill Lee told lawmakers Tennesseans deserved a vote on a law to keep guns out of those deemed a danger to ...

You will answer two questions but nobody in this courtroom is giving him the death penalty. He earned that,” prosecutor ...

The Supreme Court favoured remission to an ailing 96-year-old convict serving life term in the 1993 Rajasthan train blast case and currently on parole, saying continued incarceration is "like ...