In 1981, then-state Sen. Mike DeWine co-sponsored Ohio Senate Bill 1, reinstating the death penalty in Ohio. DeWine has said ...

A three-judge panel cited evidence the dog was provoked and said if that is the case, he should not be put down as a ...

President Donald Trump discusses the death penalty for those convicted of killing a police officer at the Nassau County ...

Assad, who has been living in exile in Russia since his 2024 ouster, was sentenced for crimes against humanity and war crimes ...

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in ...

A Phoenix woman accused of forcing a sex worker into a suitcase and leaving her in the desert has pleaded guilty to ...

Her final date will be with the executioner. A serial spouse-slayer nicknamed Iran’s “Black Widow” has been sentenced to ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the three women who allegedly tied up an emaciated 6-year-old and kept her in a ...

A new Mississippi law allows the death penalty for sexual battery of a child under 12, but critics warn capital punishment may deter victims.

DAMASCUS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A Syrian court sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in ...

Lebanon’s parliament voted to abolish the death penalty on Tuesday — replacing active death sentences with life imprisonment, the speaker’s office said in a statement. The policy shift is a first for ...

A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted former President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after it convicted him on counts of murder, torture and crimes against humanity before and after the ...