A 30-year-old man who is due to stand trial for the fatal stabbings of four roommates in 2022 in a small Idaho college town ...

Japan executed a man convicted for the 2017 serial murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, a source close to the ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, a death-row inmate convicted of killing nine people he met on social media, was executed Friday — the ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

The court awarded the death penalty to Lala based on the evidence and arguments put forward by the prosecution and held that ...

A man dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’ has been hanged for murdering and dismembering nine people. Takahiro Shiraishi was executed ...

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Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...