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 murder of Pauline Brown at the Holman Correctional Facility.

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 ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse the last-hour commutations for death row murderers last month by former President Joe Biden, directing state officials to pursue the death ...

One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

When the killer of my mother and two cousins was among the three men Biden left on federal death row, I was sentenced to continue my pain. I understand the anguish the families of the victims are ...

Meanwhile, Bondi also will end the moratorium on federal executions and order that federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice, including U.S. attorneys' offices, seek the death penalty when ...

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia 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 ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...

A French national held on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences is returning to France on Tuesday as part of an agreement made between both countries. Serge Atlaoui, 61, was accused ...