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 ...

Two of the 37 death row inmates who had their sentences commuted ... Biden, 82, recently commuted the prison sentence of Shanlin Jin, a Chinese citizen who pleaded guilty to possessing child ...

A jailed gambling tycoon fighting extradition to China received "inhumane treatment" in a Thai prison after saying he was a ...

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Two inmates on federal death row whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden are asking a judge to block the clemency action. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis said in separate ...

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 ...