A viral post claims that China's former Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in Latin America. But there's no evidence he ever made such a statement ...

Federal and state prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the Texas gunman who targeted Hispanic ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to ...

Public executions were common during the Taliban’s first rule from 1996 to 2001, with most carried out publicly in sports ...

Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new lethal injection protocol.

State and federal prosecutors have both accused Mr. Mangione of killing a health insurance executive. Attorney General Pam ...

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...