In the Arusha region of Tanzania, migrating elephants trample farmland and farmers’ livelihoods. A beehive fence has proved ...

Zimbabwe has recently banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

A bill was introduced to the Idaho Legislature to make death by firing squad the main style of execution in the state.

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

The United Nations voiced alarm Wednesday at a recent surge in alleged Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, saying it had verified 68 cases since the start of the war. "I call on the ...