Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

In the Arusha region of Tanzania, migrating elephants trample farmland and farmers’ livelihoods. A beehive fence has proved ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised ...

Outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order cited reports of autopsies on executed prisoners that showed, in many cases, signs of a potentially excruciating condition in which blood flows into ...