Edward Busby, 53, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on May 14, 2026, in Huntsville. He was condemned by a ...

Authorities allege Jose Gutierrez plowed into a group of vehicles stopped at a red light, eventually reaching a speed of 110 ...

A controversial bill proposing the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists — backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — has ignited intense public and political debate. While Netanyahu initially ...

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the U.S., there has been a sharp reversal. If all the scheduled executions are carried out, that would make 2025 the year with the ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

Central Asia’s path to abolishing the death penalty was gradual but firm. In Kyrgyzstan, a moratorium on executions was introduced in 1998 and renewed every year until the 2007 referendum that ...

Florida has executed 16 people this year, the most of any state in the modern era. The article proposes life in prison without parole as a sufficient alternative to the death penalty. I argued earlier ...

Japan faces steep challenges in abolishing the death penalty despite repeated calls from human rights groups, legal experts and the Catholic Church, as public support for capital punishment remains ...

JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for Palestinian militants convicted of killing Israeli citizens, with some lawmakers ...

Tennessee’s Catholic bishops issued a plea for mercy, calling for an immediate halt to the death penalty and its eventual abolition as the state prepares to execute Harold Wayne Nichols on Dec. 1.

The Israeli parliament advanced two controversial bills on Monday, including one that would expand the use of the death penalty for convicted “terrorists” and individuals found guilty of ...

FILE - Convicted killer George Banks, center, is led through the Luzerne County, Pa. courthouse, on the way to his sentencing on Nov. 22, 1985. (Clark Van Orden/The Times Leader via AP, File) ...