South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

Lawyers for four S.C. inmates asked justices to postpone executions until after Christmas and New Year’s. The top court may be doing that.

There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on ...

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

He also urged President-Elect Donald Trump to execute the notorious Boston Marathon bomber as one of the first acts of his ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

FRANCISTOWN: The newly elected President of Botswana Duma Boko has consistently opposed the death penalty, which has been ...

UNAMA issued a statement calling for an immediate moratorium on all executions, emphasizing that public displays of capital punishment are inconsistent with Afghanistan’s human rights commitments.

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...

Two wounded patients were killed after police officers and vigilantes attacked an ambulance in Haiti on Monday, according to ...