Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has thrown its weight behind the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control’s proposal seeking the death penalty for individuals found guilty of ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Teresa Youngblut's attorneys said the court was rushing the process that could determine whether or not the government could ...

The governor said Indiana no longer has any usable lethal injection drugs. Instead of purchasing more — and risking ...

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

Citing “an alarming increase in political violence,” one Lehigh Valley lawmaker is aiming to increase the penalty for acts of ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes into effect Aug. 5. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that ...

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...