The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld California's death penalty system Thursday, reversing

A prisoner identified as "A.S." was hanged by crane in public on rape charges. The hanging was reportedly

Saudi Arabia executed one of its citizens convicted of murder.

In an op-ed for USA Today, three retired generals call for systemic review of the status of veterans on death row nationwide and urge decision-makers in capital cases to seriously consider the mental health effects of service-related PTSD in determining whether to pursue or to impose the death penalty against military veterans.

A death row convict was sent to the gallows at the New Central Jail Bahawalpur early in the morning,

At least five prisoners were executed in Iran in two days, for different crimes.

A Kuwaiti man was sentenced to death for killing his friend and fellow tribesmen. The victim, Sultan Al-

Iranian authorities reportedly hanged three prisoners to death between November 8-9 on alleged drug

Two men convicted of murder were sentenced to death in Pakistan between November 7 and 8.

Criminal Court of Karbala has sentenced to death by hanging on four terrorists belonging to ISIS

Four prisoners were beheaded in Saudi Arabia between November 8 and 9.

California unveiled a new method for executing condemned prisoners Friday, proposing a single-drug lethal