'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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

HIT MAN IN SAN ANTONIO MURDER-FOR-HIRE SLAYING SET TO DIE

Evidence showed Mark Rodriguez already had paid him 1,000, then gave him another 1,000 three days after the killing... 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›

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›

CONNECTICUT'S TOP COURT BANS DEATH PENALTY IN STATE

Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE›

TEXAS EXECUTES MEXICAN HIT MAN MANUEL VASQUEZ BY LETHAL INJECTION

Injecting Manuel Vasquez with a dose of pentobarbital leaves Texas with enough of the powerful sedative to carry out only one more execution... READ MORE›

OHIO'S RICKY JACKSON EXONERATED AFTER 39 YEARS IN PRISON

A judge has dropped all charges against a man who has spent 39 years in prison for murder, making him the longest-held US prisoner to be exonerated... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN NGUYEN THI HUONG, 73, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN VIETNAM ON HEROIN CHARGES

However, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper, controlled by the city's police, said Huong had failed to prove that Helen was real... READ MORE›

U.S. AUTHORITIES CONFISCATE LETHAL-INJECTION DRUGS IMPORTED BY ARIZONA, TEXAS

Texas is the nation's busiest death penalty state, with about 250 death row inmates and 530 executions carried out over the past four decades... READ MORE›

OHIO'S RICKY JACKSON EXONERATED AFTER 39 YEARS IN PRISON

A judge has dropped all charges against a man who has spent 39 years in prison for murder, making him the longest-held US prisoner to be exonerated... READ MORE›

TEXAS EXECUTES MAN FOR KILLING POLICE OFFICER

Manuel Garza Jr. received a lethal injection of pentobarbital for killing San Antonio Police Officer John Rocky Riojas in February 2001... READ MORE›

AMERICANS DIVIDED OVER DEATH FOR BOSTON BOMBER DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV, POLL FINDS

Forty-seven percent of those polled want the death penalty for the Boston marathon bomber, while 42 percent would rather he spend life in prison... READ MORE›

PFIZER BLOCKS THE USE OF ITS DRUGS IN EXECUTIONS

Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection... READ MORE›