William Lewis Reece confessed to one killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. All the victims were female.

The recent anguish over the sentencing of an Indian nurse in Yemen must spark concerns about the death penalty, which is used ...

A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a taxi driver, Mr. Olarenwaju ...

Florida is gearing up to break its execution record in July 2025, with plans for nine executions, marking the highest number ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Arthur Scott, 37, killed an immigrant woman chasing the American dream in an "unspeakable, horrific" way, a judge said. Now ...

Carlos Tito Caban, 51, has been indicted for the murder of a woman in a Port St. Lucie hotel, with state attorneys pushing ...

Michael Wayne Jones, a Marion County man convicted of murdering his wife and four children, will be put to death after the ...

A man was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to crimes related to the “brutal attack” of a 61-year-old woman ...

A son of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to plead guilty on Friday in a sprawling drug ...

Kendall Rucker’s attorney called witnesses to testify about his intellectual disabilities that he claims should bar the death ...

Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death July 10, pushing this year's number of foreigners executed past 100 — a spike in ...