The American authorities have set the date for the execution of one of the most notorious murderesses in the history of the ...

DeSantis said he thinks the death penalty could be a "strong deterrent" if sentences were more quickly carried out.

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was pronounced dead.

The state of Florida has had 15 executions so far this year. Twice as many as last year. The execution ofNorman Grim raises ...

ATMORE, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Corrections executed Kenneth Smith late yesterday evening by nitrogen hypoxia, the first time in U.S. history that a state has used nitrogen gas to execute a ...