The execution by hanging of a man convicted of killing nine people in Japan comes amidst a growing debate over the country's ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed five years after he was handed the death sentence for brutally killing nine young people.Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in ...

Police arrested him later that year after finding the bodies of eight teenage girls and women as well as one man in ...

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

Alabama has scheduled an August execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?