A 29-year-old man convicted of beheading his common-law wife's three children did not show remorse after the gruesome killings and was not a model inmate during an earlier stint on death row, prosecution witnesses told jurors Tuesday.

Japan hanged two convicted killers Wednesday, including a man who burned six women to death, in the country's first executions in a year, and the justice minister said she wants renewed debate on whether to continue the punishment.

For days, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was like 'a ghost wandering in shock' after receiving death penalty A former cellmate of a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran , who spent two years in prison with her and accompanied her to the court when she received the news of her punishment, has told the Guardian how the woman, Sakineh Mohammadi ...

Testimony continues in the sentencing phase for John Allen Rubio. The Brownsville man was convicted for stabbing and beheading his three children in March 2003.

Lisa Bucher wants her son's killer to get the death penalty. But the man who confessed to stabbing and killing the 22-year-old University of Toledo student won't be going to death row.

A member of a notorious international gang was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing two brothers at a North Carolina restaurant in 2007, providing prosecutors their biggest victory yet in a crackdown on the MS-13 enterprise.