Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled house bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Convicted murderer Edward Zakrzewski is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution. Zakrzewski's lawyers are ...

Rethinking the death penalty dilemma in Nigeria By Judiciary Reporters (NAN) With hundreds of inmates languishing on death ...

Rep. Matt Simpson says part of the reason behind the bill was a deadly shooting at the Saenger Theatre in June during a ...

An Alabama state judge has ordered a mental health evaluation to see if a man on death row with a history of mental illness ...

Calcutta HC acquits two, spares one death row convict in 2021 Paschim Medinipur rape-murder case citing lack of evidence.

A Volusia Circuit judge continued to hear from lawyers of the already-convicted Deltona Xbox murderers before deciding on ...

Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

Prosecutors at the Raba Bima District Court in West Nusa Tenggara have demanded the death penalty for four drug couriers, citing sufficient evidence that the ...

On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde supersonic jet crashed on takeoff from Paris, killing 113 people, including four on ...