"It’s time to address the fact that this is a system that needs better oversight on numerous fronts," Hobbs said.

An affidavit in the Idaho quadruple murder case features chilling testimony from one witness who survived the home invasion.

Every condemned inmate on Nevada's death row could get out of their sentence through a parole board request on the part of the governor.

Iran executes a large number of prisoners annually. With months-long protests continuing, capital punishment is being used on some protesters.

This inmate on death row argued for a stay of his execution because it would violate his rights by putting him in too much pain.

Now, the first prisoner to be executed in South Carolina in a decade has the option to choose firing squad as the method of death.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother killed three people and injured 264 others in their 2013 terrorist attack.

While Cox had long been considered a suspect in the disappearance of his sister-in-law, Felicia Cox, he admitted to her murder, too.

A month after the U.S. left Afghanistan, public hangings and amputations are back as the Taliban enacts Sharia law.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled the executions to occur once a month from October through March, with two in January.