executions

DUBAI/LONDON—Iran has executed a British-Iranian national who once served as its deputy defense minister, its judiciary said, defying calls from London and Washington for his release after he was handed ...

OKLAHOMA CITY—A man convicted in the shotgun slayings of an elderly couple in eastern Oklahoma in 2003 and ...

RIYADH—Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on Saturday who were "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes," the state SPA news agency ...

A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday allowed the state to proceed with the scheduled lethal injection executions ...

The first executions since 2015 in Oklahoma were scheduled Monday. They're slated to start on Oct. 28. Oklahoma ...

Oklahoma City—The Oklahoma attorney general's office has asked the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to push back execution ...

The United Nations high commissioner for human rights announced on Tuesday she obtained "credible reports" of serious human ...

Florida rescue efforts back in full force. But major challenges ahead, including safety concerns about the rest of ...

The South Carolina Senate voted on March 2 in favor of a measure that added firing squads as an ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is amending its execution protocols to allow death sentences to be carried out ...

A federal judge ordered a new delay on federal executions, just hours before the first lethal injection was ...

The Supreme Court on June 29 declined a challenge by several death row inmates asking justices to clarify the ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration's plan to resume executions of federal death row ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday to deny a request by the Trump administration to restart federal ...

Officials said that the drugs injected into a murderer to execute him weren't responsible for a chilling scream ...

A friend of one a young Ohio woman who was killed—along with seven other people—said that she didn't ...

A South Texas man was executed Wednesday for the 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug that has been implicated in several ...

An American student at 'MIT of China' discovers Falun Gong and experiences the dark summer of 1999, when ...

Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen and women in Iraq's Anbar ...

I've always found it quite interesting--and somewhat puzzling--that certain issues are always linked politically, even though they may ...

The execution of a street vendor was the focus for many Chinese on the occasion of the People’s ...

Georgia’s attorney general asked the State Supreme Court to revoke the current stay of execution for Warren Lee ...

Controversy has arisen over the secret execution on July 12 of a Chinese businessman, called a fraudster by ...

A Saudi man found guilty of performing 'black magic' has been beheaded, the country's Interior Ministry said. Muree ...

Amnesty International said on Tuesday that there was an upswing in state-mandated executions 2011.

The execution and public humiliation of 15 men sentenced to death in a single day in Changsha City, ...