Following his arrest, Erfan Soltani's family received no information about his whereabouts for 3 days. During this period, ...

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous ...

SEOUL — A South Korean court jailed former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo for 23 years on Wednesday, on charges that included ...

Brazil's Police executed search and seizure orders on businessman Nelson Tanure as part of second phase of Operation ...

Reprieve for Iranian protester Erfan Soltani facing execution - Human rights campaigners have expressed concerns, however, ...

The real hostage crisis that inspired the movie Dead Man's Wire starring Al Pacino, Colman Domingo, and Bill Skarsgard.

The idea of public execution feels like something from a distant, brutal past. Yet in 2026, there are still places where ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions.

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of ...

Texas sets four executions from January to May 2026 for murderers including Charles Thompson, Cedric Ricks, James Broadnax, ...

A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery is set to become Florida's first execution of 2026.