WASHINGTON − Though the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority continues to push the law in a rightward direction, the six justices appointed by Republican presidents are not always rowing in sync ...

An Israeli airstrike on Iran’s capital last month killed five inmates at Evin prison and resulted in the escape of several others, Iranian media reported Saturday. The ...

Monty Python star Eric Idle has hit out at his comedy troupe after confirming how much he really took home from the film franchise ...

Final Hope for Indian Nurse on Death Row Lies in Pardon from Yemeni FamilyWith just days left until her scheduled execution ...

Dubai: Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen, has made an emotional appeal to the Indian government to ...

Nigerian governors are not willing to sign off on the execution of condemned criminals, even as findings by LEADERSHIP ...

Robert Roberson, convicted of the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2003, faces a new execution date despite new evidence ...

Attorneys for convicted killer Michael Bell have filed a last-ditch appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court to try to prevent Bell’s scheduled execution Tuesday in the 1993 murders of two people outside a ...

The recent anguish over the sentencing of an Indian nurse in Yemen must spark concerns about the death penalty, which is used ...