A Tulsa County prosecutor explains the legal steps, jury process, and why some cases end in life without parole.

After former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was handed the death sentence, several questions have emerged in international politics. Is Pakistan or China involved behind this decision? Is all ...

More people in Singapore support the death penalty for the most serious crimes, including drug trafficking. A recent survey ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

An attorney for Wade Wilson plans to appeal his death sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court. Wilson was sentenced to death for the brutal 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral. His ...

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has explained why he opted for a life sentence instead of the death penalty for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of ...

Joshua Rocha, who was convicted and sentenced last month to death for the July 2022 killing of North Kansas City police officer Daniel Vasquez, had his death sentence finalized by a judge on Monday in ...