A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and exceptional circumstances".

Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who ...

RAB-4 has arrested Firoz Hossain, a death row convict in the high-profile Shukur Ali murder case, after he escaped from Kashimpur high-security central jail on 6 August. He was arrested in the Dhamrai ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

We cannot afford to wait and see if rumors that the junta is preparing to execute five more anti-regime activists are ...

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

South Carolina’s highest court struck down appeals from death row inmate Freddie Owens, who argued that Greenville ...

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.

Taking the life of Marcellus Williams would be an unequivocal statement that when a white woman is killed, a Black man must ...

A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the state has done since the death penalty was restarted nearly 50 ...

At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked ...