The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

Big game hunter Lawrence Rudolph, 67, was convicted of shooting his wife Bianca Rudolf in the heart on the final day of their African safari trip, but maintains she accidentally shot herself

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on their…

Ex-president makes his first speech back in Washington since he left the presidency

Editorial: Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trend

Jim Fitton, 66, was jailed for 15 years after collecting artefacts souvenirs while visiting a site as part of an organised geology and archaeology tour in Iraq

Myanmar’s military regime has executed four individuals, including a deposed pro-democracy lawmaker and a prominent activist, in its first use of the death penalty in more than three decades, state media reported Monday.

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

Editor’s note: Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are tasked with convincing a jury to vote for execution over a life sentence. They are presenting graphic testimony to the jury, some of which comes in the form of video that is being withheld from…

Nikolas Cruz is a mass murderer. He killed 14 students and three adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day in 2018, and he has confessed and pleaded guilty. Now it's time to sentence him.

Nazeri bin Lajim was hanged early on Friday morning for drug offences, the latest in a ‘relentless wave’ of executions.

The men could face life in prison or the death penalty. The gruesome crime scene and large number of people who died drew international outrage.