When we kill the guilty, we become needlessly cruel. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves ...

A six-day spate of executions in the U.S. began Friday with the South Carolina execution of Freddie Owens amid doubts over ...

A series of executions in the U.S. continued Tuesday, when two men were given lethal injections within an hour of each other.

The number of executions and public support for the death penalty has been in decline in the USA for decades, but this week ...

A Texas man who waived his right to appeal his death sentence has been executed for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 ...

A killer who brutally stomped his tiny baby son to death shouted surprising final words when he was dying at his death row ...

If carried out as planned, the executions will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in ...

Travis Mullis, who sexually assaulted his baby son before strangling him and stomping on his head in January 2008, has been ...

The Supreme Court is generally unified in its ruling on death penalty cases, but Marcellus Williams' case sparked differing ...