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

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

Campaigners against the death penalty have long argued that the practice, carried out by shooting an inmate in the heart from ...

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

Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection in South Carolina's first execution in 13 years. Sentenced to death for a 1997 ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on capital punishment in South ...

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

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

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...

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 ...

The already dying capital punishment system could be eradicated much sooner if evangelical Christians would stop supporting ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials are planning to take its last 'death chamber' ...