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.

Robert Earl Butts Jr. was convicted in the March 1996 slaying of Donovan Corey Parks, an off-duty prison guard.

The Ohio parole board called the killing "among the worst of the worst."

Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.

A Missouri man who killed his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter with a butcher knife was put to death Tuesday.