Senate Democrats are offering up a compromise as the government shutdown drags on, asking for a one year extension on ...

A coalition of top athletes including Riley Gaines and Martina Navratilova condemned Iranian regime's death sentence for ...

Banks had been in prison since 1982 after shooting 14 people and killing 13, including his own children, during a rampage in ...

Medical staff said the parents "laughed" as they checked their unresponsive infant into the hospital, according to the ...

Pakistan's Supreme Court commuted on Wednesday death sentences for two mentally ill people and sent them to health facilities ...

Protesters took to Dhaka's streets on Wednesday to demand action on rising rape cases in Bangladesh, saying a new law that ...

The Florida Supreme Court has given the final go-ahead for the execution of Bryan Fredrick Jennings, convicted decades ago ...

All the research that has been conducted on the death penalty by unbiased and sophisticated researchers tells us quite clearly that the death penalty serves no useful purpose.

Hospital staff discovered signs of abuse, including burns, cuts and bruises, prompting a police investigation.

According to a Nov. 7 news release, the attorney general had sent a letter to Beshear in June asking him to sign the death ...

The convicted killer who murdered his ex-girlfriend and University of Miami linebacker Marlin Barnes in a “jealous rage” had ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...