Sri Lanka should implement the capital punishment for large scale drug traffickers, Prisons Commissioner General Jagath Weerasinghe asserted.

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

On the 44th anniversary of Ohio’s death penalty law taking effect, a group of lawmakers who originally helped create the ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

A recent child sex abuse case in South Florida is one of the first in the country to see a possible death sentence, raising ...

Nearly 30 former lawmakers who helped bring back the death penalty to Ohio 44 years ago now want it to end. Twenty-seven members of 114th General Assembly who passed legislation four decades ago to ...

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

Nearly 30 former lawmakers who helped bring back the death penalty to Ohio 44 years ago now want it to end. Twenty-seven members of 114th General Assembly who passed legislation four decades ago to ...

Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives The Liberian government has responded to a renewed push by civil society pledging to submit a revised bill to the ...

Tom Cooke began his writing journey in 1986 but put his dreams on hold to provide for his family. After decades of ...