An Ogun State High Court sitting in Kobape, Abeokuta, on Monday sentenced Lekan Adekanbi, Ahmed Odetola, and Waheed Adeniyi to death by hanging for the murder of Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife, Bukola ...

Singaporean activist Jolovan Wham has been charged with five counts of taking part in a public assembly without a permit.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences will be returned to his home country on Tuesday, where he hopes to be granted his freedom. Indonesia, which has some of the ...

The question "What would your death row meal be?" serves as a popular topic for dinner party small talk, and even some podcasts. But it's grounded in a grim tradition. In countries which still ...

Higgins Gulch in western South Dakota was where the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office found the body of 19-year-old Allan ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev. Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington.

A French national held on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences has left prison to return to France as part of an agreement made between both countries. Serge Atlaoui, 61 ...

he government has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a series of foreign drug ...

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who ... leaving him with no other legal options. Sign up here.