Thomas Sanders was convicted by a federal judge of kidnapping and murdering a Las Vegas 12-year-old, Lexis Roberts, in 2010 and sentenced to death.

Caddo Parish DA’s Office files to have 2 death row inmates executed. The state supreme court ruled the district court must ...

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

Girls as young as nine can be sentenced to execution; for boys it’s 15. At least 73 young offenders were executed between 2005 and 2015. And the authorities show no sign of stopping this horrific ...

(KTEN) — The execution date for convicted killer George John Hanson has been set for June 12. He will be put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the ...

Scottish Sailor Alexander Hamilton (not the guy the musical is about) wrote an account of an execution by elephant carried out in what was then Siam, now Thailand, in his 1727 book A New Account ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt his scheduled April 8 execution by arguing that using the ...

It's a rare and controversial method of execution, so it's somewhat surprising that just weeks after Sigmon's death by firing squad another death row inmate has requested it. Advert Mikal Mahdi is ...

The execution of death row inmate Mikal Mahdi, of South Carolina, is scheduled to be carried out on April 11, should it go ahead - with the 41-year-old granted one more chance to appeal his punishment ...

Just after 6 p.m. on March 7, the curtain hiding South Carolina’s execution chamber jerks open. From my front-row seat, the room reveals itself in phases. First, two wardens. Next, the lethal ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. His attorney confirmed to CBS News that Mikal ...