Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the single survivor of a squad of terrorists from Pakistan who killed 166 people in Mumbai, India, in 2008,...
Lawmakers from the House and Senate in Connecticut have passed new legislation that abolishes the death penalty for any and all future...
An incongruous mixture of archaic religious strictures and cutting-edge technology could result in the possible execution, by beheading, of a young Saudi...
Illinois today became the 16th state to abolish the death penalty when Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill passed last...
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian Christian who shot and killed Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole yesterday. This was his 13th...
There is a domestic shortage of the anesthetic thiopental sodium, which is used for lethal injections in every state but Oklahoma. To...
The nomination of UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has drawn plenty of reaction...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on pending legislation in Uganda that would impose strict penalties on homosexuals, up to and including...
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know by now that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in New York for...
John Allen Muhammad, better known as the DC Sniper, is scheduled for execution tonight after the Supreme Court turned down his appeal....
The California Supreme Court has removed Cynthia Thomas from the death penalty case of Charles Moore, and referred her to the State...
Amazingly, The American Lawyer is asking if it would be okay to apply the death penalty to Bernie Madoff. The enormous fraud...
