The Democratic Republic of Congo’s High Military Court in Kinshasa, the capital, has convicted on appeal the Congolese army ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has accelerated its executions of dissidents and activists, with the true number of victims likely obscured by the regime’s internet censorship and blackout. Ever since ...

Florida is on track this year to break its own record with 20 executions, leading all states by far in carrying out the death penalty. The state accounted for about 40% of all executions nationwide ...

A coalition of athletes, including several Olympians, have signed a letter advocating against Iran for its history and plans to execute star athletes, as the planned execution of Iranian boxing ...

Part of a deal protecting 9 inmates doesn’t bar their executions anymore, justices say. Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carla Wong McMillian — pictured in April 2024 — wrote a unanimous opinion Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei attends a meeting of the heads of the three branches of government in Tehran.

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge has upheld Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method is not ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled for execution on June 25 for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. The murder occurred after a history of domestic violence, including a prior attack with a steam ...