Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that the state of Arkansas intends to execute eight incarcerated…

A mentally ill death row inmate convicted of shooting a city inspector in 2005 was executed by lethal injection on…

On Monday, October 19, the state of Ohio deferred its execution schedule until January 2017 due to problems…

Two Syrian civilian women were publicly beheaded alongside their husbands by the Islamic State this week, according…

A Syrian woman accused of adultery by the Islamic State has reportedly managed to survive their attempts to execute…

This past Saturday, Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year-old woman, was hanged for the 2007 murder of former Iranian…

When 44-year-old Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the ruling…

Iranian authorities have reportedly ordered that Sakineh Ashtiani be executed for adultery tomorrow, and protesters…

Iran's chief prosecutor says Sakineh Ashtiani could still face stoning for adultery. This contradicts a report that…

For the first time in a hundred years, a woman is on death row in Virginia. Now Iran is calling the US hypocritical…

Iranian authorities now say mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani will not be stoned for adultery. However, she m…

Debra Schaefer, warden at the SCI Muncy correctional facility in Pennsylvania, treats the inmates like she treats…