Executions

The Supreme Court has indicated that the execution of four federal inmates, which had been blocked, may now proceed.

In a court filing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said the employee tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.

Wesley Purkey has schizophrenia, brain damage, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's and dementia. The Constitution requires the prisoner to understand why he is being executed. He clearly doesn't meet that test.

Matthews warned that if Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wins the 2020 election, there could be socialist-led executions in Central Park.

At least 122 people have been executed by the Saudi government this year as the royal family intensifies a crackdown on dissenters.

Alexanda Kotey, radicalized in West London, was one of four members of the notorious torture cell, infamous for their brutality and British accents.

North Korea's ruling regime keeps more than 100,000 individuals in death camps and has carried out a series of horrific executions.

The United Nations has verified 202 mass graves across the country and warned there could still be more.

Rodney Scott Berget was executed by lethal injection for a 2011 murder during a failed attempt to escape from jail.

The last time two convicted killers were put to death on consecutive days was in 2012.

More than 500 people have summarily been executed in raids since 2015, with security forces arranging the scene to suggesting victims "resisted arrest."

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

How many executions did the U.S. perform last year?

Bible "left a trail of carnage" before he was convicted, 20 years later.

Despite his support for the approach, the president has doubts over whether such a law could be passed.

In 2001, Battaglia shot the two girls and called their mother during the killings.

Officials in November 2017 struggled for 25 minutes to find a vein to shoot lethal injection drugs into his arm.

The U.N. has called ISIS atrocities against the Yazidis a genocide but fighters from the ethnic group have been accused of reprisal killings.

The legal fight over executions in Nebraska reflects a national debate over whether to carry out the most serious punishment.

The seven first responders were discovered early Saturday, each of them with gunshot wounds in their heads.

Public defender rebuts claims that Ronald Ray Phillips didn't struggle after a 3-drug lethal cocktail was administered.

Polls show Palestinians are the most radicalized, anti-peace population in the Muslim world.

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

Capital punishment is as old as the religion itself. But is the death penalty actually anti-Christian?

Ahmad al-Shamri pleaded insanity to the 2014 charges saying he was drunk when he uploaded the footage.

Arkansas plans to execute one more man before before its supply of midazolam expires at the end of the month.

Ledell Lee, one of eight men sentenced to death, was executed on Thursday night.

Arkansas, which has not carried out an execution in 12 years, planned to begin the lethal injections of at least six convicted murderers on Monday.

Seven men in Arkansas will be put to death within 10 days of one another.

According to a new Amnesty report, global executions have fallen by 37 percent since 2015.