The U.S. government weighing whether to livestream an execution on Dec. 3 calls for a look back at past public executions.

The arbitrary executions of these five young men serves as another chilling reminder of how the Iranian authorities weaponize ...

One of the last public executions in the United States took place in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936. Rainey Bethea, a young ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah officials here and in Washington have reacted with almost universal dismay to the pending public ...

A historic community event from 1936 remains the final instance of capital punishment conducted openly before citizens in American history. Historical records and judicial archives confirm that the ...

Military justice expert Eugene Fidell of Yale Law School speaks to NPR about the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution of a convicted mass murderer.

The Pentagon has announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer convicted of killing 13 fellow service members ...

Erie police have confirmed nine people have died after a mass shooting in Pennsylvania, including a heavily pregnant mother ...

The scheduled execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at a military site in 2009, is set to ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an ...