Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week. This was the first time in more than 20 years that five executions ...

Miller was convicted of murdering three co-workers during two back-to-back shootings one morning in 1999 in suburban ...

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people — Amber McLaughlin, ...

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights ...

Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection. He was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers, a ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 ...

"Even the men on Death Row, to show it is possible to be rehabilitated ... A look at the state of the death penalty Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri amid strong innocence claims: 'It is murder' ...

Williams' attorneys argued that the ex-girlfriend and cellmate were convicted felons who wanted part of a $10,000 reward.

In the U.S., a Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed by lethal ...