According to a new Amnesty International report published in July and data from the official Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom ...

Iran has more than doubled state executions in 2024 with at least 612 people killed compared to 297 in the same period last ...

Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas, saying the ...

People from the San Diego Iranian American community rallied on Tuesday, demanding a stop to what they believe have been mass ...

The execution of Edward Zakrzewski set a record for the most in Florida in a single year, 9, since the death penalty was ...

The inmates contend juries sentenced them to execution by lethal injection and the Legislature “cannot rewrite those verdicts ...

Federal executions are historically rare. There have been only 16 since 1977 — compared with more than 1,500 state executions — and 13 of them took place between July 2020 and January 2021 in ...

Saudi authorities put two people to death on Monday to reach 17 in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Ten inmates on Arkansas' Death Row have filed a lawsuit to block the state's use of nitrogen gas for executions, arguing that ...

Nearly half of Arkansas’ death-row inmates filed suit on Tuesday in Little Rock to bar the state from executing them with ...