A French citizen convicted of drug trafficking has been executed in China after being kept on death row for more than 15 ...

Iranian authorities Thursday executed a teenager convicted over January protests after a fast-track trial rights groups ...

Iran has unleashed several new executions — with many more expected to come — over fears of another citizen-led uprising as ...

A State Department spokesperson called Iran's executions "barbaric" as the United Nations and activists group report the ...

A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 ...

The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday issued his strongest rebuke to date of Ohio’s years-long moratorium on ...

The Israeli Knesset has passed a controversial bill expanding the use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses, ...