A French citizen convicted of drug trafficking has been executed in China after being kept on death row for more than 15 ...

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

A State Department spokesperson called Iran's executions "barbaric" as the United Nations and activists group report the ...

A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 ...

Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three ...

The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning ...

After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday issued his strongest rebuke to date of Ohio’s years-long moratorium on ...

Allegheny County prosecutors have backed away from seeking the death penalty for Johnathan Morris, the man accused of killing ...

Utah death row inmates were told they were too late to challenge Utah's execution protocols. Now, the Utah Supreme Court is ...

The Israeli Knesset has passed a controversial bill expanding the use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses, ...