North Korea has increased its use of the death penalty to target those consuming foreign media, especially from South Korea, ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

By Heejin Kim SEOUL, April 28 (Reuters) - North Korea sharply raised the number of executions it conducted after shutting its ...

Executions rose sharply in North Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Seoul-based NGO. From January 2020 to the ...

North Korea ramped up executions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released Tuesday said, as authorities intensified ...

A federal judge Tuesday threatened officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the state Attorney General’s ...

A plurality of death sentences before the pandemic were for murder, while during the pandemic, prosecutions seemingly ...

The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing ...

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace this year.

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

At least 65 Ethiopian migrants are at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offenses, Human Rights ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.