The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

The federal death penalty will continue to exist under the second Trump administration. The president-elect’s ability to make ...

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally indicating a sharp increase which one rights group said was unprecedented.

Many many many executions are warranted,” one Trump supporter wrote on Truth Social. “These traitors are a terminal cancer ...

NEWPORT NEWS — A woman pleaded guilty Monday in the execution-style killing of a teenage girl to ... who abducted 17-year-old ...

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...

During his term, Donald Trump (2017-2021) oversaw more federal executions than any president in decades: 13 in six months, between July 2020 and January 2021, after a de facto moratorium of 17 years.

The execution of German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd by Iran is an extrajudicial killing of a "hostage" who was abducted by the ...

Thirteen inmates were put to death in an unprecedented run of federal executions in the final six months of Trump's first term.

Germany has lodged a protest against Iran following the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German dual national, and has recalled its ambassador to Berlin for consultations.