The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police. Afghanistan's Taliban authorities carried out the ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have carried out a public execution in the eastern city of Khost KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium ...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) expressed surprise and anger Thursday at President Trump’s suggestion that he and six Democrats with military or national security backgrounds be put to “death” for ...

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

A South Carolina killer who murdered three people in a week and taunted police with a message written in blood is set to become the third inmate in the state executed by the controversial firing squad ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – Richard Randolph died by lethal injection Thursday at 6:12 p.m. inside the Union Correctional Institution. More than three decades ago, he was sentenced to death for the rape and ...

The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police.

GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a "summary ...

A death row inmate endured a horrific botched execution when one of the electric chair's straps broke - engulfing him in flames and filling the air with the stench of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the "brutal and prolonged" rape and murder of a beloved convenience store manager who interrupted him during a robbery nearly 40 years ago. Richard Barry ...