An Idaho man has been sentenced to death in connection with the murder of his first wife and two of his second wife's children.

"It was murder and it was intentional," the victim's mother said. "If Massachusetts had the death penalty that’s what I would want."

An Iranian rapper has received a literal death sentence for daring to criticize the country's oppressive and brutal regime in his music.

Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will die by lethal injection Wednesday.

"If the Israeli government decided to execute 13 people because they are gay, the Western media would go berserk."

A couple in China who had started an adulterous affair received the ultimate penalty for a horrific child murder.

The state's Republican attorney general has taken the unusual step of siding with the inmate in the case because of concerns about his trial.

"These cases are litigated always up to the United States Supreme Court because the ultimate death penalty is an issue..."

A New Mexico Republican lawmaker wants the death penalty for those convicted of some forms of child sexual abuse.

Alabama moved one step closer to using a new method of execution after a federal judge refused to stop a scheduled Jan. 25 execution.