Death Penalty

The 29-year-old has been detained since 2015 for involvement in anti-government protests.

The kingdom executed 146 people last year, the third highest figure of any country.

The British Home Secretary gave Jeff Sessions the green light for ISIS executioners to be tried in the U.S.

President Maithripala Sirisena will end the moratorium that has been in place on executions since 1976.

The Iraqi authorities are fast-tracking trials for prisoners in the war against ISIS, including European women who traveled to Iraq to marry fighters for the group.

Urdiales has been convicted of eight murders in California and Illinois in the ’80s and ’90s.

Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for murdering a family of four in 1966.

"It goes without saying that the conduct was horrendous and inhumane and nothing short of evil," LA County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli said.

He was sentenced to death after murdering his former partner, his four-year-old son and a 13-month-old girl.

The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation.

Moody killed a judge and an attorney in December 1989 using package bombs.

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Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of terror-related offenses, according to an analysis by Associated Press.

Doyle Lee Hamm's execution was abandoned after 2.5 hours when medical staff could not find a suitable vein in his groin, feet or legs.

The president is considering how to tackle the problem.

He was pronounced dead at 6.05 p.m.

A jury has recommended the death penalty for Donald Smith, the Florida man convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.

She fled to Iraq from Europe with her two daughters, both of whom married ISIS fighters.

His daughter told Newsweek she will be relieved when her father is put to death.

A recent political development has opened up the possibility of accomplishing the task in 2018.

This comes as public support for capital punishment hits historic lows.

Capital punishment cases are down but five of the 23 executions this year still highlight the arguments of those who oppose the death penalty.

South Carolina officials can’t find any pharmaceutical companies to make the lethal drugs needed to execute one of its prisoners because they are scared of backlash. 

Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten all escaped the death penalty.

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

Convicted terrorists can go to jail but those that recruited them deserve harsher sentences and "could be shot," Chechnya's leader said.

The death penalty is expensive, wrongful convictions are "far too frequent" and drug complications often make the killing drawn out and inhumane. Politicians are just unable to ignore it now.

Pope Francis condemned the death penalty but could face an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled U.S. government where 72 percent of Republicans support the death penalty.

Mujtaba’a al-Sweikat was arrested at an airport in 2012 and may be facing imminent execution for participating in pro-democracy protests.

The forensic pathologist doesn’t want his legacy to be creation of the country’s first lethal injection method.