death penalty controversy

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

Shiite cleric's execution in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia exposes Mideast's dangerous divisionsAfter a year of political pregame, 2016 race gives way to a...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs, California proposed Friday to allow corrections officials to c...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

No executions will be scheduled in Oklahoma until at least next year, as the attorney general's office investigates why the state used the wrong drug ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — The latest on the scheduled execution of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip (all times local): 11:50 a.m. An appeals co...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state's highest court on Thursday spared t...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Marcus Weaver spent nearly three years talking openly about forgiving the man who shot him, killed his friend and caused unto...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ignoring pleas and petitions by civil society groups, India on Thursday hanged an accountant convicted of supporting the 1993 Mumbai ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, she n...

DENVER (AP) — The time has come for jurors to hear whether James Holmes should be executed for killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater. But even...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two dissenting ...