Human justice is never perfect. That’s why the death penalty is so dangerous. Indiana reminds us that it’s still with us.

Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a motion to pursue the second execution of her tenure, selecting Richard Djerf, a man ...

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three ...

The accused was sentenced to capital punishment by special National Investigation Agency Lucknow court in another case ...

The proposal includes ending capital punishment for embezzlement and bribery, replacing it with life imprisonment without ...

Before Aaron Gunches' execution in March, experts warned that pentobarbitol could cause him to suffer. Here's what the ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 ...

Charges have been filed against a man accused of shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff members at the Capital Jewish Museum ...

A judge has struck down federal prosecutors’ plan to pursue the death penalty in a Reno case after they said they would not ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her teenage sons, ...

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the ...