The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning ...

Human rights groups and European governments have condemned Israel’s passage of a law approving the death penalty on ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

While Jewish families gather to celebrate freedom, new death penalty law signals the state's tightening grip over ...

By Maayan Lubell and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making death by ...

An execution warrant has been signed for James Ernest Hitchcock, the man convicted of the 1976 rape and murder of Cindy ...

The nation of Iran has been carrying out executions, including of teenagers, as the U.S. and Israel wage war against the ...

Tia Green, one of the victims of Samuel Moreland's 1985 attack, expressed her conflicting emotions in the wake of Moreland's ...

The defense has appealed a circuit court's decision blocking analysis of Duckett's inconclusive DNA test.

An Alabama man who was outside a building when a man was killed in an armed robbery is looking at life as "a gift from God" after being granted clemency by the state’s governor just days before he was ...

The petition argues that the law creates a discriminatory system, saying the West Bank amendments apply only to Palestinians.

The Israeli parliament has approved a law permitting the death penalty for Palestinians in terror-related cases, sparking ...