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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

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 ...

Around 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution, the largest crowd for a hanging in early American history. The crime? Sedition. Thomas Hickey, a member of George Washington’s personal guard, was ...

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 ...