EASING OF DRUG LAWS COULD HALT EXECUTION OF 5000 PRISONERS

Iran is second only to China in the number of prisoners executed in recent years, the majority put to death for drug offences... READ MORE›

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'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›

DRAWINGS OF POLICE TORTURING A SUSPECT CAPTIVATE CHINA

Mr. Liu said in the telephone interview that he was not afraid of possible retaliation from the police over the drawings... READ MORE›

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›

MEXICOS MURDEROUS ALLIANCE OF STATE, THE ARMY AND THE DRUG CARTELS

Mexico's murderous alliance of state the army and the drug cartels... 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›

PENSIONER ACCUSED OF EATING ALLEGED VICTIMS 'MAY HAVE MURDERED 10 MORE'

Russian pensioner and suspected cannibal Tamara Samsonova 'may be responsible for 10 more murders'... 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›

U.S. SHUTS DOWN SILK ROAD 2.0 WEBSITE, CHARGES ALLEGED OWNER

Blake Benthall, 26, was arrested on Wednesday in San Francisco and was expected to make an initial court appearance in federal court there later on Thursday... 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›

LAWYERS FILE EMERGENCY MOTION TO STOP EXECUTION OF MENTALLY ILL TEXAS INMATE

Panetti has suffered from mental illness for more than three decades, having begun to show signs of paranoia as early as 1978... 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›

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›

BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERS OF BRITISH BACKPACKERS

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun convicted of murdering David Miller and Hannah Witheridge in Koh Tao in 2014. Miller's brother says justice has been delivered ... 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›

FATHER OF CHARLESTON SHOOTING SUSPECT CLAIMS HE IS RECEIVING ENDLESS THREATENING PHONE CALLS

The current Black Panther Party was founded in 1989 an extremist black radical political group... 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›

BURMESE MEN FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER OF BRITISH BACKPACKERS IN THAILAND

Burmese men to face trial for murder of british backpackers in thailand... READ MORE›