Tennessee executed Oscar Smith after years of delays, with the 75-year-old using his final words to denounce the justice system and insult the governor.
A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer will face execution by firing squad after the state's highest court denied his final appeal.
Derrick Dearman, 36, who openly welcomed death after he was convicted of the sextuple slayings of his then-girlfriend's family, died by lethal injection
Cole was sentenced to death for the 1994 slaying of 18-year-old Florida State University student John Edwards. He was also ordered to life in prison for the rape, kidnapping and robbery of John's 21-year-old sister, Pam Edwards.
A Saudi Arabian court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet convicted of apostasy. The court, instead, sentenced Fayadh to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, a statement from his lawyer said.
The Supreme Court has ruled Florida's death penalty system unconstitutional. 390 inmates on Florida's death row is expecting to appeal for resentencing.
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against the head of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes during the country’s 1971 fight for independence from Pakistan. Bangladesh said that the death sentence is necessary to heal the wounds of those affected by the war.
The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday denied a request to halt the execution planned for later this week of Richard Glossip, whose lawyers said they had uncovered new evidence that points to his innocence.
Egypt executed an Islamist on Saturday for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried out against a supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing 304 passengers was jailed for 36 years on Tuesday after a court found him guilty of negligence, but was acquitted of homicide for which prosecutors had sought the death penalty.
A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted an Islamist party leader on Sunday of atrocities during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago and sentenced him to death
