Capital Punishment United States

A terrorist who escaped from jail in Manipur while undergoing trial in the sensational 2003 kidnapping and murder for ransom of the 8-year old daughter of a former state minister has been awarded "capital punishment" by a section of the United National Liberation Front, the oldest militant group in the state, currently reeling under an internal cri...

The days of capital punishment may be numbered in the United States, with sharp reductions in new death sentences and executions carried out amid waning public support, according to a report released Wednesday.

The state of Texas today executed a death row inmate convicted of fatally shooting a man in 1998, after robbing his victim of eight dollars.

The US Supreme Court is on Wednesday set to consider the constitutionality of a controversial lethal injection technique, in a key case that could have broader implications for capital punishment in America.

The number of executions worldwide rose last year despite a general global trend toward capital punishment abolition, according to a report released on Friday by an Italian anti-death penalty group.

The Florida Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for a man who raped and killed a 9-year-old boy in Miami-Dade County 18 years ago.

A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution with the first use of a lethal injection process never before tried in the US.

Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years.

A terrorist who escaped from jail in Manipur while undergoing trial in the sensational 2003 kidnapping and murder for ransom of the 8-year old daughter of a former state minister has been awarded "capital punishment" by a section of the United National Liberation Front, the oldest militant group in the state, currently reeling under an internal cri...

The days of capital punishment may be numbered in the United States, with sharp reductions in new death sentences and executions carried out amid waning public support, according to a report released Wednesday.

The state of Texas today executed a death row inmate convicted of fatally shooting a man in 1998, after robbing his victim of eight dollars.

The US Supreme Court is on Wednesday set to consider the constitutionality of a controversial lethal injection technique, in a key case that could have broader implications for capital punishment in America.

The number of executions worldwide rose last year despite a general global trend toward capital punishment abolition, according to a report released on Friday by an Italian anti-death penalty group.

The Florida Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for a man who raped and killed a 9-year-old boy in Miami-Dade County 18 years ago.

A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution with the first use of a lethal injection process never before tried in the US.

Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years.