Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

Twenty-seven men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Nine other people are scheduled to be put ...

The execution of Edward Zakrzewski set a record for the most in Florida in a single year, 9, since the death penalty was ...

People from the San Diego Iranian American community rallied on Tuesday, demanding a stop to what they believe have been mass ...

Arkansas death row inmates have filed a lawsuit against the state over a new law that allows it to execute them with nitrogen ...

Iran Iran slammed for record surge in executions of regime opponents: 'true face is on display' United Nations experts issue statement urging Iran to stop current execution spree ...

Human Rights Watch warns that Saudi authorities are increasingly using capital punishment to silence dissent, pointing to recent cases such as the execution of a journalist arrested in 2018 for ...

If the Supreme Court justices allow executions to restart and any additional appeals are unsuccessful, South Carolina's death chamber, unused since May 2011, could suddenly get quite busy.

Death sentences and executions, even for actual murderers, are relics of primitive societies in which leaders and their underlings ritually killed to expiate perceived evil, propitiate the gods ...

Alabama has botched four of the nation’s nine known botched executions since 2018. It is another thing for a state to preside over both a botched and failed execution, in which the condemned ...

Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas, saying the ...