A state district judge has signed death warrants setting execution dates for two men convicted of murders in Caddo Parish -- ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the ...

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman had been convicted of violent crimes, and 16 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg police captain. Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also killed a ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said on Tuesday. The payout ...

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The story so far: On March 3, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed that the execution of Shahzadi Khan, an Indian national sentenced to death in the UAE for the alleged murder of an ...

PERSON AT THIS TIME. WELL, THE NEXT SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH ROW INMATE SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION HAS CHOSEN THE FIRING SQUAD. TODAY, THE DEADLINE FOR MIKAEL MOODY WAS TO DECIDE HOW HE WANTED TO BE ...