The Senate Judiciary Committee approved HB49 which proposes the death penalty for child rape and sodomy under 12 ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection.

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

Bryan Kohberger's autism diagnosis should take the death penalty off the table if he is convicted of the Idaho student ...

Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena UBT, on Thursday held a protest in Latur district of Maharashtra to demand capital punishment for the accused involved in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukhs murder.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set new execution dates for four inmates after a nearly three-year pause. The temporary ...

Efforts to end the death penalty in Ohio have gained more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in recent years. But it hasn’t been enough to get any bill across the finish line.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents is to be put to death by firing squad on Friday in ...