Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using a new method involving nitrogen gas.

For instance, before “The Perfect Neighbor” became one of the buzziest films out of Sundance 2025 for the way in which it ...

Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27. Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that ...

Idaho Department of Correction estimates renovation costs for a firing squad facility is likely to exceed $1 million.

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...

Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione returned to a New York City courtroom on Friday for a brief appearance in ...

Amit Segal is correct that seeing hostages returned from the Hamas terror tunnels “fills the heart with joy” (“This Israel-Hamas Deal Sets a Dangerous Precedent ...

A Malaysian man convicted of trafficking 51 grams of heroin was granted a last-minute reprieve from execution by a Singapore ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India were in 2020, when the Nirbhaya case convicts were executed. Though India ...