The court, however, limits it to 'special and exceptional circumstances' and bans its use for mentally ill defendants ...

After more than a decade without an execution, South Carolina has taken a controversial step by executing its first inmate in ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

The Jharkhand High Court has confirmed the capital punishment for a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Friday upholding the legality of the death penalty, which is still imposed ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution ...

A last-minute appeal and request for clemency were denied for the Greenville man convicted of killing convenience store clerk ...

South Carolina resumed executions after a 13-year hiatus, administering a lethal injection to Freddie Owens, convicted of killing a clerk during a 1997 robbery. Owens' last-minute appeals were denied, ...

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...