Edward Zakrzewski and his wife Sylvia had been going through marital problems; he had told a neighbor that he would rather ...

Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...

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Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the ...

Warco claims that Walsh then pressured him into producing a certificate that listed the death as a “homicide, with shaken ...

Florida has executed more people than any other state this year and is on track to set new modern-day records.

After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.

Capital punishment is legal in 29 US states. There are about 2,600 death row inmates, with California detaining the most.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...