Getting a death sentence in the United States is no longer as common.
State prosecutors bringing charges against Dylann Roof who killed 9 black churchgoers in a racially motivated terrorist attack are seeking the death penalty.
Sister Helen Prejean testifies that the accused, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, is remorseful and should not be given the death penalty.
Five foreigners were recently beheaded publicly in Saudi Arabia's, which has shown a rise in the number of executions this year.
A Chinese woman has had her death sentence reduced to life in prison after a court agreed that domestic abuse drove her to murder her husband.
Firing squads are to be used only if the state runs out of lethal drugs, primary means of killing a convict on death row.
Jodi Arias will miss the death penalty after the judge presiding over her case declared a mistrial.
Lawyers spent another intense day in court for the Jodi Arias death penalty sentencing retrial as psychologist Dr. Janine DeMarte took the stand to assess Arias' mental health.
Uber announced that anyone who wishes to drive for the company in India will have to undergo background checks.
As a number of botched executions in 2014 led to renewed debate about the validity of practices used to carry out the death penalty and the death penalty itself, the governor of Maryland has decided to end the year by commuting the death sentences of the last people on Maryland's death row.
In the wake of a brutal Taliban attack on a Pakistani school that left 148 dead, of which 132 were children, the Pakistani government has ended its moratorium on the death penalty.
