Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is calling for the end of the Iranian regime amid ongoing protests and as the country holds its breath to see whether a 26-year-old protester will be executed, something ...

Nevada death row inmate Scott Raymond Dozier confers with Lori Teicher, a federal public defender involved in his case, during a Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, appearance in Clark County District Court in ...

SEOUL, April 28 (UPI) --North Korea ramped up executions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released Tuesday said, as authorities intensified crackdowns on offenses tied to South Korean media and ...

The Trump administration announced Friday, April 24, that the US Department of Justice will expand the methods used to execute federal death row inmates to include firing squads, electrocution and gas ...