In a filing Thursday in Oklahoma, lawyers provided evidence that Texas sold pentobarbital to Virginia in

Four men who shot and killed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s relative have been sentenced to death.

Pakistan's army announced the death penalty for nine hardline militants linked to a series of terrorist attacks

An anti-terrorism court awarded death sentence on two counts to two suspects and imprisonment to two

After Pope Francis called for the “global abolition of the death penalty” in front of Congress Thursday, the

In his address before the United States Congress, Pope Francis called for “the global abolition of the death penalty” because, he said, "every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes."

The additional sessions judge of Kamalpur, in Tripura's Dhalai district, sentenced two youngsters to death

A group of United Nations human rights experts urged the Government of Saudi Arabia to halt the

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi pardoned two imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, resolving a case

An India-based company that appears to have made one of the execution drugs Arkansas purchased says it

Islamic State militants executed nine men and a boy accused of being gay in Syria, a monitoring group has