Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

The human rights organization Hengaw has reported the execution of an Afghan citizen in Bandar Abbas prison, Iran, despite ongoing international calls to stop executions in the country. The ...

You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...

Proposals to make the Pardon and Parole Board members full-time state employees, institute a death penalty moratorium and mandate automatic expungement are up for consideration this year.

A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31 by lethal injection is requesting a delay until more information is ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The Jenin deputy governor said Israeli forces have blockaded the four entrances to the city of Jenin and the camp, preventing ...

How should corrupt public officials be punished? A lawmaker proposed a bill imposing death penalty by firing squad, but the ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal i ...

Aaron Gunches was sentenced to death and he’s ready to die. The state is ready to accommodate him. So, what’s the problem?

President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The death penalty is not effective,” ...

A press freedom group representing the Indiana Capital Chronicle has filed a lawsuit in Marion Superior Court against the Indiana Department of Correction, alleging that the state agency violated ...