A man has been put to death by the authorities in the US state of Oklahoma despite a parole board recommending that the life ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, who was convicted in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner, received a lethal ...

Despicable baby killer Travis Mullis gave his haunting final words following a 16-year spell on death row, before being being ...

The judge said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Iwao Hakamada was not the culprit, his ...

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

Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, Williams was executed, showcasing the deep flaws and racial bias embedded ...