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 ...

A viral post claims that Ex-China 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.

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

Two of the men were shot around six to seven times by a male relative of the victims in front of spectators in Qala-i-Naw, ...

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

New Delhi: Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key 2008 Mumbai attacks accused who landed in Delhi on Thursday, will be tried for waging ...

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

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for an inmate at a maximum-security facility in Colorado, the DOJ announced, ...