On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

A death row inmate convicted of multiple sexual assaults and murders has died in prison at the age of 86, nearly two decades ...

Prime accused Monojit Mishra had written “Want death sentence for the rapist...” on social media following RG Kar rape and ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man who ambushed and murdered Sacramento Police Department Officer Tara O'Sullivan was sentenced to the death penalty Friday. Adel Ramos opened fire at O'Sullivan on June 19, ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...

Monojit Mishra, now arrested for gang-raping a student in Kolkata, had previously demanded death for rapists in another case.