First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed ...

The execution Thursday of James Hitchcock was the sixth so far in Florida this year, a stunning pace that has Florida leading ...

North Korea has increased its use of the death penalty to target those consuming foreign media, especially from South Korea, ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing ...

A federal judge Tuesday threatened officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the state Attorney General’s ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

Avandi, who was 17 when she was forced to marry, was accused of killing her severely disabled husband 11 months into their ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

At least 65 Ethiopian migrants are at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offenses, Human Rights ...

By Heejin Kim SEOUL, April 28 (Reuters) - North Korea sharply raised the number of executions it conducted after shutting its ...

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace ...