Execution
Brandon Bernard Was Just Put to Death In Trump's Unprecedented Push for Executions
His death marks the ninth federal execution this year.
Chris Krebs Just Sued the Trump Lawyer Who Called For His Execution
The lawsuit says Krebs' 10-year-old son asked: “Daddy’s going to get executed?”
The Forgotten Story of the Last Teenager Hanged in England
Sixty years on, the little known story of Francis “Flossie” Forsyth still haunts those who knew him.
The Trump Administration Was Just Blocked From Carrying Out the First Federal Execution in 17 Years
Daniel Lewis Lee, a 47-year-old former white supremacist, was set to die by lethal injection Monday afternoon.
Sri Lanka Now Plans to Hang Drug Dealers After Being Inspired by the Philippines
After nearly half a century of no executions, the President wants to revive capital punishment after seeing Duterte’s crackdown against drugs.
The Sri Lankan Government is Advertising Job Positions for Hangmen
The President seeks executioners with "excellent moral character" as the country prepares to reintroduce the death penalty.
Guy who made Tennessee's electric chair is worried it will malfunction in tonight's execution
This is only the second time the state has used that method since 1960.
The first person ever is about to be executed with fentanyl — and it’s not Scott Dozier
The title has shifted to 60-year-old Carey Dean Moore, who’s been on death row in Nebraska for nearly four decades.
Should 'Late Adolescence' Protect Young People from Execution?
The years between 18 and 21 are a sort of societal limbo period when, in most states, you can't drink, but you can smoke—and get sentenced to die.
We spoke to the daughter of a Japanese cult leader the day before he was executed
Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara was just executed for his role in the 1995 sarin gas attack that killed 13 on the Tokyo subway
What It's Like to Deliver Death Sentences
I ran for office and took the oath knowing that the death penalty would be part of my job, whether I liked it or not.