On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Capital punishment has been the topic of several Saturday morning essays. This week’s news that Indiana has spent more than ...

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

Japan’s Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...