As one of the greatest actors of his generation and the iconic voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, James Earl Jones played a larger-than-life role in American culture throughout his long ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

Alan Eugene Miller became the second death row inmate in the U.S. to be executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, nearly 25 years after the murders of ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn ...

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...

The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite new evidence suggesting he was wrongfully convicted. Williams ...

Mullis was executed 16 years after he told police he reached his "breaking point" and killed his baby boy when he wouldn't stop crying.

A six-day spate of executions in the U.S. began Friday with the South Carolina execution of Freddie Owens amid doubts over ...