Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is "unavoidable," according ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

Coronation Street star plays his grandfather, the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis to death for shooting her lover David Blakely ...

Aliyu Kamal, Imam of Alhaji Issa Elelu Central Mosque, has appealed to Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, governor of Kwara State and ...

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Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

THE process of resentencing 44 death row inmates has commenced following Zimbabwe’s abolition of capital punishment in ...