Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday acquitted two convicts awaiting death penalty in the murder of a five-year old child abducted for ransom reported y police in Charsadda district of Khyber ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for March 18, is now tied up in the courts.

Brittany Holberg, 52, has spent more than a quarter of a century on death row before a federal appeals court tossed out her ...

Jimmie Chris Duncan is on death row in Louisiana for a crime that experts now say may never have happened. His case has ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Oklahoma law says anyone who has ever scored 76 or higher on an IQ test is competent to die for their crime. Science says otherwise.

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Former Death Row boss Marion "Suge" Knight resoundingly denounced the Snoop Dogg as a lousy music executive and a has-been rapper.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...