Brad Keith Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in South Carolina, opted for the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection.

Before active surveillance, 6 out of 10 maternal deaths were missing from official records; a new system is changing that.

Most detainees there have been terrorism suspects captured on battlefields in Afghanistan or Iraq, or whisked away on U.S. military aircraft during “extraordinary renditions.” Holding inmates on a U.S ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Federal prison officials transferred an inmate to Oklahoma custody so that he can be executed for a 1999 killing, following ...

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially for women of color.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday adjourned hearing for an indefinite time on PTI's petition seeking formation of judicial commission on incidents of May 9. A five-member constitutional bench ...

Would anyone ever know her for the woman she was? How would she be remembered? Would her identity and existence remain ...

They chanted slogans such as "Until the abolition of the death penalty, we will stand to the end." In a powerful symbolic act, Mohammadi set fire to a hangman’s noose, emphasizing the call for ...

A bill before the Colorado state legislature would require a deceased person's gender identity be recorded on their certificate of death under penalty of a fine and/or jail time for anyone who ...

Miss Teen USA beauty queen Kandance Fredericksen overcame a childhood of homelessness and abuse before finding stardom in the pageant world. The Miss Okaloosa County Teen winner used her ...