A museum in the city is honoring the legacy of Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who fought to repeal the death penalty in ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

Tennessee executed Byron Black, 69, by lethal injection. Black was sentenced to death for the 1988 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her two daughters in South Nashville. His death was preceded by a ...

Byron Black was executed for murders he committed in 1988. Black had a defibrillator in his chest and the Tennessee State Supreme Court ruled last week that it could be carried out without the device ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ...

North Carolina’s “Iryna’s Law,” signed by Governor Josh Stein, enforces stricter criminal procedures and sets the stage for ...

Other nations that still use this method include Japan, Iran, Singapore and Pakistan. Despite international criticism, ...

Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week in Tennessee. He was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to disable his ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Richard Djerf, who was convicted of killing four members of a Phoenix family in 1993, died by lethal injection Friday morning ...