At least 71 death row inmates in China had their vital organs removed, to be used for transplants, before they were officially declared dead, according to a study published in the Am erican ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate, Japanese former boxer Iwao ... diagnosed with institutional psychosis, reports ...

Thousands watched 12 people receive criminal sentences in a local stadium and 10 were sentenced "immediately" to death Chinese social ... sentencing death row inmates and parading them in the ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

so when he heard in 2011 that Texas was abolishing the special last-meal request for death-row inmates, he became fascinated by the tradition. "I dug into [researching] it ... and found a public ...

South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US ...

A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than four years. Texas is preparing ...

EXCLUSIVE: A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed next week for his conviction of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, but his lawyer argues that not only is her client innocent ...

Hank Johnson re-introduced a death row appeals bill that would allow death row inmates the opportunity to introduce newly discovered evidence in their appeal. H.R. 9868, also called the Effective ...