Stephen Bryant is the seventh person put to death in the state in the last 14 months after a 13-year pause in executions.

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with seven others scheduled to be put to death later this month. The total for 2025 ...

Iran executed six people it accused of carrying out deadly attacks in the country’s south with support from Israel, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported. Mizan described the individuals as ...

Hundreds of Iranian activists condemned Tehran’s alarming use of the death penalty – after a coalition of dissident groups reported the hangings of 280 people, including children, in October alone.

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Florida has put a record number of people to death this year, more than any other state in the country. So far this year, the state has executed 13 people — a figure higher than any year since the U.S ...

After President Donald Trump brokered a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group publicly executed several people, in a shocking show of defiance and power. Yet I've heard ...

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Thursday laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” ...