Taiwan has ruled that the country's use of the death penalty is partly unconstitutional. The main opposition party, the KMT, ...

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 ...

Before the start of her second murder trial, Karen Read is asking the highest Massachusetts court to drop two of the charges.

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

Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that the death penalty is constitutional for the most serious crimes under stringent legal scrutiny. Despite being Asia's liberal democracy, the death penalty ...

Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes ...

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

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

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

Gabriel Caswell, 22, caretaker at an animal shelter in Weatherford, Texas, received a prison sentence of 10 years recently ...

Two days before the first execution in this state in 13 years, the legal team for death row inmate Freddie Owens filed a ...

Hours before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself.