Death penalty news headlines

The Alabama death row inmate said an autopsy would violate his religious beliefs as a practicing Muslim, a lawsuit says.

The Texas parole board has denied Ramiro Gonzales clemency for the 2001 murder of Bridget Townsend.

The lead up to Jamie Mills' death was controversial, with claims his wife had a secret plea deal with prosecutors.

The killer has launched a lawsuit based on witness accounts of the first man to be executed in the same way.

Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country's largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said.

A Missouri man has been executed for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago after a last bid ditch to save his life failed.

A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than four years.

Texas is preparing to execute the accused but his advocates - including Kim Kardashian, his mother and about 150,000 signatories of a petition - are calling for a reprieve.

A volunteer medical team tried unsuccessfully for a hour to find a vein to execute US serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech by lethal injection, before halting the procedure.

The experimental process involves replacing the air breathed by an inmate with 100 per cent nitrogen, depriving the body of oxygen.

The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to be put to death this week using nitrogen gas.

Three states have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but no state has previously attempted to use it.

The case of Phillip Hancock has triggered a storm of protests after authorities in Oklahoma rejected clemency pleas.

A man is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening, more than 25 years after he killed two women he met a day apart at bars in north Florida.

Human rights groups said the court ruling marked a disturbing new level of political repression in the kingdom.

He ranted about Jews online before carrying out the attack at Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018, and told police at the scene that "all these Jews must die".

Singapore hanged a woman convicted of attempting to traffic an ounce of heroin, the first execution of a female prisoner in nearly two decades.

A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening.

The families of two Australians who were facing the death penalty in Vietnam are "relieved" after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese helped broker a clemency deal.

Legislation stipulates capital punishment for 'serial offenders' and transmission of HIV/AIDS through gay sex.

Bryan Kohberger's silence led to judge entering not guilty pleas on his behalf ahead of a trial in which he could face the death penalty.

Iran has hanged two men convicted of blasphemy, authorities said, carrying out rare death sentences for the crime as executions surge across the Islamic Republic following months of unrest.

The US Supreme Court has put on hold the execution of Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate whose capital conviction the state attorney general has said he could no longer support.

A racing stable has been fined $350,000 over the workplace death of jockey Mikaela Claridge.

Singapore has executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing heavy pushback from a victim’s sister and a powerful county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner next month for his conviction in a 2002 killing.

An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk about strategy before they stand trial in April.

Iran said on Saturday it executed a former high-ranking defence ministry official and dual Iranian-British national, despite international warnings not to carry out the death sentence.

Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade decline in the US.

Alabama's capital punishment system will be reviewed after the botched execution of a third criminal on death row.

Jimmy Spencer was a known violent offender. In 2018 he killed three people, including a seven-year-old boy.

A Texas woman convicted of killing a pregnant woman and then taking her unborn baby, who also died, has been sentenced to death in the US.

A jury spared has Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty for killing 17 people at a US high school in 2018.

Prosecutors have asked a Texas jury to sentence a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn daughter from her womb.

Two men used needles to repeatedly probe arms, legs, feet and hands, at one point using a phone flashlight to help their search for a vein, according to a court filing.

It's possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.

The California Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death penalty for one of two men implicated in at least 11 notorious horrific torture-slayings in the mid-1980s.

An appeals court has stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate who had raised questions about whether prosecutors had presented false and inaccurate testimony from an expert.

Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 200

A British man sentenced to death by proxy Russian court for fighting in Ukraine has been told the execution will proceed.

The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Malaysia has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and allow judges to set alternative punishments for a range of offences.

An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an eight-year-old girl has been put to death in the state's second execution since May.

An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death today after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state's use of the death penalty.

A psychologist assessed his IQ to be 69. Malaysia's Prime Minister and British billionaire Richard Branson have decried the proceedings.

Melissa Lucio was set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the death of her two-year-old daughter Mariah.

Tennessee will hold the state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, sentencing 72-year-old convicted murder Oscar Smith to death.

Texas Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, led a group of politicians to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville where Melissa Lucio is a death row inmate

An Australian study claims to have unearthed evidence which suggests Chinese surgeons are executing death-row prisoners by removing their hearts before they are clinically dead.

A Tennessee inmate scheduled to be executed this month has petitioned the courts to reopen his case after DNA from an unknown person was detected on one of the murder weapons.