Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, Tony ...

South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United ...

FLORENCE, Arizona — Arizona carried out its first execution of the year Wednesday morning, putting to death a man convicted ...

One state's execution total represents an unprecedented increase that human rights researchers say reflects flawed security narratives used for political purposes.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Iran carried out at least 2,159 of the approximately 2,707 executions recorded worldwide last year, according to Amnesty ...

It remains unclear why some death row inmates face execution much earlier or later than other condemned prisoners. In 2007, ...

A 64-year-old man convicted of murdering a traveling salesman was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in Florida, the US state that carried out more executions last year than any other. Ronald ...