Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.

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

What’s your biggest secret, the one thing you’ve never told anyone? For Steven Golden, it was the truth about what happened ...

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 ...

Taking the life of Marcellus Williams would be an unequivocal statement that when a white woman is killed, a Black man must ...

TJ Riggs of Birmingham, who works with Amnesty International USA ... juries the authority to decide whether those convicted of capital murder receive the death penalty or life in prison without the ...

Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition.A bleak ...

Two years have gone by since a massive protest movement erupted in Iran following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini after ...

The governor has previously described South Carolina’s decade-plus hiatus in carrying out executions as justice delayed. Shortly before Owens’ scheduled execution time on Sept. 20, McMaster is ...

A Nigerian judge on Wednesday granted bail to 10 people charged with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny following last month's protests against a cost of living crisis. Amnesty ...

St. Lucie County resident Bill Sternberg knows what it's like to debate the death penalty as a USA TODAY editor. He could have been on Tisdale jury.