The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Miller was convicted of murdering three co-workers during two back-to-back shootings one morning in 1999 in suburban ...

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for his role in the 1992 shooting death of an Oklahoma City convenience store owner ...

In his last words, he told his mother and daughter that he loved them but expressed no remorse and did not repeat his claim ...

Alabama will execute a death row inmate Thursday with nitrogen gas, a controversial and highly secretive procedure that has ...

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people — Amber McLaughlin, ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights ...

"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...

The judge said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Iwao Hakamada was not the culprit, his ...