Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan ...

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 ...

World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan Miller's execution marks ... while Tuesday saw the executions of ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

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

Littlejohn and his accomplice, Glenn Bethany, got away with only a few hundred dollars from the Root-N-Scoot convenience ...

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m.

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

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

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, ...

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