Tokyo - A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Dec 27.

Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipino worker who was staying in a women's correctional facility after she arrived in the country ...

Mary Jane’s case highlights the critical importance of operationalizing the non-punishment principle enshrined in the ASEAN ...

"A few days before his execution, Brandon’s family visited him for the last time. After the visit, Brandon told me there was ...

An Idaho man whose father was executed in 2012 — the most recent prisoner put to death by the state — will spend up to 50 ...

Billionaires and big business are pledging to donate to the president-elect’s inaugural fund like never before.

Charlotte City Councilman Malcolm Graham believes justice will be served against the man who killed nine people at a South ...

President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to expand federal use of the death penalty, condemns President Joe Biden’s decision ...

Seven people sentenced to death in the Carolinas were among the more than three-dozen federal death row inmates to have their ...

On the same day that President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of seven Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his own set of ...

Donald Trump spent Christmas wishing ill to his enemies and wondering why President Joe Biden wouldn’t want to execute inmates ...

Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on ...