Kevin Hines, a contractor maintaining postal machines, was killed during his first shift at a Missouri City USPS facility.

The defendants say Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

Amid state plans to execute convicted killer Ralph Menzies, Governor Cox said "there are probably circumstances" where the death penalty is "still warranted."Th ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of Timothy W. Fletcher for the 2009 murder of Helen Googe, rejecting ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Indiana Republican lawmakers and ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...