Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after police found several victims in cold storage at his apartment.

Lisa Montgomery, who was found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri, will be executed by lethal injection at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.

The federal government this year began carrying out executions again after a 17-year hiatus despite waning public support for the death penalty.

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before a lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out.

Punithan Genasan, 37, was sentenced to death on Friday for masterminding a 2011 heroin transaction.

An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man.

Ben Stiller's high school band, Capital Punishment, have reunited and recorded a brand new EP.

Experts say Francis' change could shift political debates, loom over Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and make it difficult for devout Catholic judges to uphold the law as written.

The 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church had for centuries allowed the death penalty in extreme cases.

Ronald Smith's father still had a bedroom and a vintage car waiting for the day his son might come home to Alberta from the Montana prison where he has been on death row for 35 years.