[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society “Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and ...

A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients avoided the death ...

“It is an unprecedented case of arson and mass murder, and the number of victims is by far the largest in the history of Japanese ... They added that the death penalty should be avoided by ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court (TCC) will hold a hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty on Tuesday. This is the first time in Taiwan’s history since its democratic transition that the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing the mother of his children ...

This replaces life imprisonment, previously the harshest penalty. Nigeria, with over 200 million people, has shifted from a ...

IN February this year, anti-death penalty campaigners welcomed the Zimbabwean Cabinet’s approval of principles for a bill to ...

Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Around the same time ...

This list includes the nine best penalty takers in football history who have been ranked based on the percentage of penalties they have stuck away in their career, not including penalty shoot-outs.

Jose Ibarra was indicted by a Georgia grand jury on Wednesday in a case that quickly garnered national attention due to the ...

The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty against an Allegheny Township man accused of ...