Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A death row inmate is escorted through the hall in San Quentin prison in 2024. The fate of 75 death-row inmates could be decided ...

The United States will resume federal executions on July 13, after a 17-year stay, the Justice Department said Monday. There have been just three federal execution since the death penalty was ...

The FINANCIAL — t least 2,707 people are known to have been put to death last year, according to Amnesty International’s annual review of the death penalty. This is the highest number of executions ...

America’s death penalty debate raged Thursday after it took nearly two hours for authorities in Arizona to execute a prisoner who lost a Supreme Court battle challenging the experimental lethal drug ...