Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since ...

The Democrat will be the first woman and one of fewer than 20 Minnesotans accorded the honor. She will lie in state with her ...

In a significant shift that is garnering attention both domestically and internationally, the Vietnamese government has abolished the death penalty ...

Alabama has scheduled an August execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the ...

The Canonsburg father whose infant daughter died from fentanyl poisoning nearly three years ago pleaded guilty to one felony ...

Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?