Supreme Court nominee, Justice Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, has urged the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in Ghana, ...

Reverend Sharon Risher's mother and two cousins were among the nine people murdered during Bible class. A decade later, she ...

Reacting to an announcement by Iran’s judiciary that the Iranian authorities this morning executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri ...

DONKOR EsqThe death penalty remains a deeply contested issue, provoking the fundamental question: Should the law possess the authority to take a life in the name of justice?This debate lies at the ...

"His life is worth saving," supporters of Richard Jordan say. They are asking Mississippi to stop plans to execute the ...

A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 ...

One year ago, Florida killer Wade Wilson, who shares his name with the alter ego of the Marvel character Deadpool, was ...

The case that most recently drew Sarat’s ire over the last statements of the condemned concerns a Florida man, the so-called ‘Casanova Killer,’ who, in May, made positive comments — and headlines — ...

The man accused of assassinating one state lawmaker in Minnesota and shooting another could face the federal death penalty. He tried to attack two other officials, prosecutors said, and had many more ...

Now, Bakkedahl's office is moving forward by seeking the death ... put the life imprisonment moot or of no effect." Del Toro echoed the sentiments of pursuing justice, stating, "The right thing ...

An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump ...