Iran has hanged two men convicted of blasphemy, authorities said, carrying out rare death sentences for the crime as executions surge across the Islamic Republic following months of unrest.
The US Supreme Court has put on hold the execution of Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate whose capital conviction the state attorney general has said he could no longer support.
Singapore has executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing heavy pushback from a victim’s sister and a powerful county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner next month for his conviction in a 2002 killing.
An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk about strategy before they stand trial in April.
Iran said on Saturday it executed a former high-ranking defence ministry official and dual Iranian-British national, despite international warnings not to carry out the death sentence.
Two men used needles to repeatedly probe arms, legs, feet and hands, at one point using a phone flashlight to help their search for a vein, according to a court filing.
The California Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death penalty for one of two men implicated in at least 11 notorious horrific torture-slayings in the mid-1980s.
An appeals court has stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 200
The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted.
An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death today after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state's use of the death penalty.
Texas Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, led a group of politicians to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville where Melissa Lucio is a death row inmate
An Australian study claims to have unearthed evidence which suggests Chinese surgeons are executing death-row prisoners by removing their hearts before they are clinically dead.
A Tennessee inmate scheduled to be executed this month has petitioned the courts to reopen his case after DNA from an unknown person was detected on one of the murder weapons.
A Singapore court has rejected a final appeal by a man sentenced to death for drug trafficking, following a campaign by his lawyers who said the trial violated international laws as the man has intellectual disabilities.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the US' largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.
Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defence claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, execution method.
An Ohio man charged with killing eight people from a single family lost his attempt on Wednesday to have the most serious charges and the possibility of a death penalty thrown out.
A US man convicted of killing his estranged wife, her unborn child and three other people six years ago in north Alabama was sentenced to death this week after being convicted of multiple counts of capital murder.
On December 28, Isao Kakehi became the fourth and final victim of Japan's "Black Widow" killer. Kakehi eventually confessed to poisoning Masanori Honda, Minoru Hioki and Toshiaki Suehiro with cyanide capsules.
The US state of Alabama said it will allow a death row inmate's pastor to hold his hand during a lethal injection next month, a decision that was made to end litigation over the issue.
Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez won a reprieve from execution for killing 46-year-old Pablo Castro convenience store worker during a 2004 robbery during which he also stole $1.6 million
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons on Tuesday to seven African-American men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman
The Taliban have sentenced the brother of an Afghan translator to death, according to letters obtained by CNN, accusing him of helping the US and providing security to his brother, who served as an interpreter to American troops
A Chinese court rejected a Canadian drug convict's appeal of a death sentence in what appeared to be an effort to step up pressure on Canada to release a detained executive of tech giant Huawei.