KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.

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 ...

Last week, the state of Indiana killed its first death row inmate in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran was convicted of murdering four men in 1997. He exhausted his appeals in 2016. ICC Senior Reporter Casey ...

Trump Signs Pro-Death-Penalty Order, Calls Capital Punishment an ‘Essential Tool’ The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state's third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy Lee Ward, ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could collide with longstanding city law and ...