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JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS
Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... 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›
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›
INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... 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›
CROCODILES AND TIGERS TO GUARD PRISONERS
In November 2015, Indonesia bowed to international pressure and put a temporary halt on executing death row prisoners, so alternatives were sought by the authorities... 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›
ARKANSAS SEEKS WITNESSES FOR EIGHT UPCOMING EXECUTIONS
A state law requires that at least six people witness an execution to ensure that the state's death penalty laws are properly followed... READ MORE›
34 INMATES ESCAPE CROWDED JAIL IN HAITI WITH SUSPECTED HELP OF PRISON GUARDS
Photograph Dieu Nalio Chery AP Saint-Marc is a port city about 60 miles 95km north of Port-au-Prince and is the largest city between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien... READ MORE›
WHAT TO EXPECT AS PROSECUTORS TRY TO PERSUADE JURORS TO SENTENCE DYLANN ROOF TO DEATH
In a separate order Monday, the judge laid out limitations on Roof's activities during the penalty phase... READ MORE›
VIETNAM SUSPENDS JAIL GUARDS OVER DEATH-ROW PREGNANCY
Investigators say Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, inseminated herself with the help of a male inmate, apparently to escape the death penalty, state media reported... 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›
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›
HARRY ROBERTS: THE MAN BEHIND THE 1966 POLICE MURDERS
Harry Roberts the man behind the 1966 police murders... 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›
#BALI9: MELBOURNE-EDUCATED INDONESIAN MP @PRANANDAPALOH BACKS MERCY
Against the death penalty 26-year-old Indonesian MP Prananda Surya Paloh... READ MORE›
DEATH PENALTY, CASTRATION FOR CHILD RAPISTS
Indonesia's introduction of tougher punishments for child sex offenders, including the death penalty and chemical castration, has won public applause... READ MORE›
IRISH TEEN FEARS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN EGYPT JAIL
Teenager Ibrahim Halawa endures daily threats of violence from guards and spends up to 24 hours a day in a tiny cell with eight other prisoners... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY ANTHONY BANNISTER TO FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
Australian jockey Anthony Bannister, facing the death penalty, will learn his fate on Thursday... READ MORE›
GEORGIA BOARD REJECTS POPE'S PLEA, EXECUTES FIRST FEMALE IN 70 YEARS
I'm very disappointed and saddened by this decision, said the Reverend Cathy Zappa, an Episcopal priest who taught Gissendaner through a prison theology program... READ MORE›
U.S. STATE OF GEORGIA EXECUTES ONLY WOMAN ON ITS DEATH ROW
Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson... READ MORE›
'ART BECAME HIS RELIGION': SUKUMARAN EXHIBITION OPENS IN SYDNEY
The works were painted while Mr Sukumaran was on death row in Bali's Kerobokan jail and during his final incarceration on Nusa Kambangan Island... 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›
'I AM SORRY FOR THE LIVES I HAVE TAKEN'
Killed in the bombing were Martin Richard, 8, Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 26, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY ANTHONY BANNISTER ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE FOR NOW
Bannister is one of 12 Australians detained in China on serious drug charges that potentially attract the death penalty... READ MORE›
ALABAMA INMATE EXECUTED FOR 1994 CONVENIENCE STORE KILLING
Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was pronounced dead at 11 05 p.m., about 30 minutes after the procedure began at the state prison in southwest Alabama... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY ANTHONY BANNISTER ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE FOR NOW
Bannister is one of 12 Australians detained in China on serious drug charges that potentially attract the death penalty... READ MORE›
'I DIDN'T DO IT,' SAYS U.S. SERIAL KILLER SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION THURSDAY
Rosalie Bolin says her husband is innocent in Matthews' killing, and she has become one of the state's most outspoken death penalty opponents... READ MORE›
POLITICS AND THE DEATH PENALTY: FOR CLINTON AND TRUMP, SAFEST STANCE MAY BE SILENCE
Both of her primary rivals - Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley - opposed capital punishment... READ MORE›
HOUSE OF LORDS FEARED CHEAP CHAMPAGNE AND VETOED MERGING SERVICES WITH COMMONS
Besides those receiving the death penalty, three people were given suspended death sentences and one person was given five years in prison for that assault... READ MORE›