On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House on Friday, June 27, Japan's Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki ...

The case, which shocked the nation, highlights Japan’s continued use of capital punishment despite international criticism.

As states that still practice capital punishment faced difficulties obtaining drugs for lethal injections, nitrogen hypoxia was developed as a workaround to the primary method used around the country.

Then there are countries like Pakistan, with which we play cricket and which we consider to be a lot different from Afghanistan or North Korea. There are 3,700 people worldwide on death row for ...

One family's example points to the need for a different attitude toward capital punishment. Parents of murder victim Shannon Schieber, Vicki and Sylvester Schieber, in 2002.

Thirty-two states allow capital punishment for the most heinous crimes. And yet in most of the country, the penalty is now hollow.

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes—including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...

A district court judge has thrown out a challenge to the Kansas death penalty on procedural grounds, but said there are economic and psychological concerns about capital punishment in Kansas.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.