death penalty

Commentary The death penalty in the United States is on the verge of being snuffed out. The commonwealth of Virginia, which has executed more convicts than any other state in ...

Dozens of nonprofits and other groups on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden to move to end federal executions ...

Virginia's Senate approved a bill on Feb. 3 that would make Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty ...

The United States is deeply concerned by the Pakistani Supreme Court’s decision to acquit and release the main suspect in the 2002 ...

Convicted murderer Brandon Bernard was executed by lethal injection on Thursday at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, according ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Northern California prosecutors said Friday they will again seek the death penalty for Scott Peterson in the ...

Anyone who kills a police officer should get the death penalty, President Donald Trump said Sept. 13. Speaking ...

The federal execution of a convicted murderer who kidnapped and killed a 10-year-old girl is scheduled to proceed on ...

A federal judge on Aug. 27 blocked the execution of a convicted murderer who kidnapped and killed a ...

China has sentenced another Canadian citizen to death on drug charges, a move that comes amid a heightened ...

The Justice Department says it's scheduled two additional federal executions of convicted murderers just weeks after the department ...

A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and ordered a new ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday rescheduled the execution of a convicted murderer who killed a 63-year-old woman and her ...

The U.S. formally has rejected nearly all of Beijing's major territorial claims in the South China Sea, the Chinese ...

The first federal execution in the United States in nearly 20 years took place on Tuesday after the ...

A Texas inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting an elderly man at his home as he robbed ...

Federal Trade Minister Simon Birmingham does not want to link the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) death sentence of an ...

Missouri carried out the first execution in the country Tuesday since the start of the CCP virus outbreak ...

A Missouri man who was convicted of stabbing to death an elderly trailer park manager three decades ago ...

O'FALLON, Mo.—Missouri is moving ahead with plans to execute a man next week, despite new concerns about key ...

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the man shot dead in his neighborhood in Georgia earlier this year, says she ...

Four men sentenced to death for the gruesome gang rape and murder of a woman on a New ...

A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 ...

A federal judge on Nov. 20 ordered the upcoming execution of four federal death-row inmates to be put ...

Attorney General William Barr said that the Trump administration's effort to restart federal executions could go to the ...

HOUSTON—A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s ...

A Florida jury recommended the death penalty for Granville Ritchie, who was convicted of sexually abusing and killing ...