'I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR, I DO NOT REGRET WHAT I DID'

The Justice Department has executed only three inmates in the modern death penalty era, and the last such execution was in 2003... READ MORE›

OHIO READY TO RESUME EXECUTIONS WITH NEW DRUG COMBINATION

Ohio plans to resume executions next year with a new three-drug combination after a three-year hiatus, state officials said Monday... READ MORE›

FLORIDA EXECUTES MURDERER MARK ASAY WITH NEW DRUG

He was the first white man to be executed in Florida for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center... READ MORE›

MENTALLY ILL MAN SET TO DIE IN ARKANSAS 'CONVEYOR BELT' EXECUTIONS

Later, after he was put on death row in Arkansas, he was observed to be a loner who lived in almost total isolation... READ MORE›

BLACK 14-YEAR-OLD BOY EXONERATED 70 YEARS AFTER HE WAS EXECUTED

George Stinney Jr Black 14-year-old boy exonerated 70 years after he was executed... READ MORE›

COURTS GRANT STAYS TO REMAINING SEVEN MEN SET TO DIE IN ARKANSAS EXECUTIONS

The executions had been scheduled to start Monday night... READ MORE›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›

JW LEDFORD JR LAWYERS WANT FIRING SQUAD, NOT INJECTION

Georgia already has the skilled personnel, weapons and ammunition needed to carry out an execution by firing squad, Ledford's lawyers argued... READ MORE›

JESSICA WONGSO GETS 20 YEARS FOR CYANIDE MURDER

An Australian resident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering her friend with a cyanide laced coffee... READ MORE›

ARIZONA INVITES DEATH ROW INMATES TO BRING THEIR OWN EXECUTION DRUGS TO SIDESTEP EU BAN

Arizona has devised a new way of sidestepping an EU ban on the supply of lethal injection drugs to US jails... READ MORE›

NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013

If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›

'BLACK WIDOW' INVESTIGATED AFTER DEATHS OF SEVEN PARTNERS

In April 2012, another black widow killer, 39-year-old Kanae Kijima, was given the death penalty for the murders of three men she met through Internet dating sites... READ MORE›

UTAH PASSES BILL TO ALLOW EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD FOR DEATH-ROW PRISONERS

The bill would require Utah to use a firing squad if lethal injection drugs are not on hand 30 days before an execution... READ MORE›

BOSTON BOMB TRIAL SET TO PICK JURY

Mr Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of detonating a pair of homemade bombs... READ MORE›

Ohio has postponed all six of its scheduled executions this year until 2016 as it tries to find supplies of drugs to use in lethal injections... READ MORE›

Bills pushing for backups to lethal injection have been making progress in state legislatures... READ MORE›

COURT OKS OHIO DO-OVER OF FAILED LETHAL INJECTION OF ROMELL BROOM

He is the only inmate to survive an execution using lethal injection... READ MORE›

FARKHUNDA MURDER: AFGHAN COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES

On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE›

BOTCHED OKLAHOMA LETHAL INJECTION EXECUTION OF CLAYTON LOCKETT DESCRIBED AS A BLOODY MESS

It was a bloody mess, said Anita Trammell, the warden of the Oklahoma state prison where the execution took place on 29 April at 6... READ MORE›

After the Texas parole board rejected Panetti's bid to have his sentence commuted to life, his lawyers on Monday filed a reprieve letter with Gov... READ MORE›

FIRING SQUAD EXECUTIONS ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO COMING TO WYOMING

The state Senate previously passed the bill, but an amendment was added in the House, requiring another Senate vote... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA UNVEILS LETHAL INJECTION PLAN AFTER 10-YEAR EXECUTION DELAY

The latter two have never been used in the U.S. as execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment... READ MORE›

STATE SIGNS THROUGH LAW ALLOWING RETURN OF 'GRUESOME' METHOD OF EXECUTION

We prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued, his spokesman said... READ MORE›

DEATH SENTENCES SURGE EVEN AS MORE COUNTRIES DROP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›

U.S. JUDGE REJECTS BID FOR NEW TRIAL FOR BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER

Three days later, the Tsarnaevs shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26... READ MORE›

12 FACE DEATH PENALTY OVER 2006 TERROR ATTACKS

An Indian court has convicted 12 people over the bombings of seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed 188 people and wounded 800 others in July 2006... READ MORE›

JAMES HOLMES IS FOUND GUILTY IN 2012 COLORADO MOVIE THEATER SHOOTING

Email Justin Independent.co.uk New York James Holmes was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday afternoon for the theater massacre three years ago... READ MORE›

DEATH PENALTY IN THE US: PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR PUTS MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS

Tom Wolf placed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, pending a study on the issue... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN EXECUTES MAN WHO WAS A JUVENILE WHEN ARRESTED FOR MURDER

Since last december's taliban attack on a school more than 230 people have been executed after pakistan lifted a 2008 moratorium on carrying out death sentences... READ MORE›

SHAREHOLDERS CAN'T FORCE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY TO PROVE DRUGS AREN'T USED FOR EXECUTIONS

Cardinal Health shareholders wanted to be sure that the company's medicines were not used for lethal injections... READ MORE›