Scheduled to die at 9pm, Huang Lin-kai (黃麟凱) was instead executed at 10pm on Jan. 16. The media put the story in their news cycle and fanned it into a firestorm, repeating the gory details over and ...

On whether the death penalty excessively violates the “right to life,” the judgement establishes two standards: Given the severity of the punishment, the death penalty should only be used in the most ...

South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. became first person executed in the United States in 2025 on Friday after the U.S. Supreme ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Bowman's execution would be South Carolina's third in four months as it works through a backlog of death row inmates whose appeals were exhausted during a lengthy delay in lethal injections.

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Jan. 30. Iwao ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said Thursday.

The death row inmate continues to maintain his innocence. But “he cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed ... Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided ... more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ...

SINGAPORE: Activist Jolovan Wham was on Monday (Feb 3) charged with attending five illegal candlelight vigils for death row inmates in 2022 and 2023. The 45-year-old Singaporean was given five ...