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

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Follow the latest Capital Punishment news stories and headlines. Get breaking news alerts when you download the ABC News App and subscribe to Capital Punishment notifications.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...