The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Although you won't receive the death penalty, getting caught using a banned VPN in China can have serious consequences ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

The Arizona Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence for a man who was found guilty of murdering a woman near Tucson ...

Some governments that retain the death penalty, such as Kenya, claim that they can’t abolish it while there is considerable public support for capital punishment ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

An Arizona death row inmate called on the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and carry out his death sentence ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

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