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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The executions of three men on death row have been delayed, according to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The following inmates ...

A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a ... Halprin, 47, was among the group of inmates known as the “ Texas 7,” who escaped ...

There are 277 people on death row in Florida. Six men on death row were convicted of crimes on the Treasure Coast. These are their stories, compiled from court records and TCPalm archives and ...