The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has welcomed amendments to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Criminal Code ...

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of ...

The People's Supreme Court in Vietnam has spared Kenyan Margaret Nduta the death penalty after she was convicted of ...

A 34-year-old Nigerian, Orachor Onyeka, who was arrested for allegedly supplying synthetic drugs in the Indian city of Bhopal ...

The mother and stepfather of a 5-year-old girl who died amid signs of severe child abuse have been indicted on charges of first-degree murder in her death.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione. He's the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024.

A Bourbon County teenager was in court via Zoom on Tuesday for murder charges in connection with a double homicide from April, and the prosecutor has filed a request for the death penalty.

There are 737 prisoners in California whose executions are now paused after the governor issued a moratorium on the state's death penalty policy, but that doesn't mean anything will change for ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Amid state plans to execute convicted killer Ralph Menzies, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said, "There are probably circumstances" where the death penalty is "still warranted ...

Federal prosecutors appear to be preparing to seek the death penalty against a woman accused in the January shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border, and her attorneys are ...