The Senate Judiciary Committee approved HB49 which proposes the death penalty for child rape and sodomy under 12 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat his ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair ...

Bryan Kohberger's autism diagnosis should take the death penalty off the table if he is convicted of the Idaho student murders, defense lawyer argues.

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

A recently unsealed defense motion in the capital murder case against Bryan Kohberger offers the most detailed picture of the ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Adel Ramos pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of officer Tara O’Sullivan, but a jury deadlocked last year on whether he should ...

A recently unsealed defense motion in the capital murder case against Bryan Kohberger offers the most detailed picture of the ...

Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena UBT, on Thursday held a protest in Latur district of Maharashtra to demand capital punishment for the accused involved in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukhs murder.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has raised concerns over the increasing push for the death penalty in Nigeria, warning that the measure could be counter-productive in addressing crime and ...

The capital murder trial for the man accused of killing 7-year-old Athena Strand is being pushed into next year.