The crowd on A-Wing A-Section at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit is about to get thinned.

Three actors with ropes around their necks stood in front of a large Japanese flag to draw attention to the practice that remains legal in Japan, the United States, Iran, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, among ...

Gladys Perez and Marc Colon have been found guilty of first degree murder and child abuse in the death of Perez's three-year-old daughter.

LONDON. October 10. KAZINFORM. The world is moving closer to the final abolition of the death penalty, according to the latest figures published to coincide with World Day against the Death Penalty yesterday.

A Cuyahoga County jury convicted 19-year-old Lamidi Kafaru of aggravated murder today in the slaying of a Cleveland police officer.

Jurors will return Thursday to continue hearing evidence in the capital murder trial of 22-year-old Elgin "Ray Ray" Robinson.