Florida has executed a death row inmate 50 years after he raped and murdered his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter while Texas put an inmate to death for killing two Christian music producers during ...

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

The last woman executed in the United Kingdom will receive a conditional pardon due to a "profound injustice". Ruth Ellis, a mother of two, was hanged in 1955 for shooting dead her lover outside a ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon. Ellis was hanged at London's Holloway Prison in 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover ...

Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January, with activists warning of the risk of a new surge in hangings as war rages with Israel and ...