Capital punishment has been the topic of several Saturday morning essays. This week’s news that Indiana has spent more than ...

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said.

Japan executed “Twitter Killer” Takahiro Shiraishi in its first use of the death penalty since 2022. Shiraishi murdered and ...

The chilling mass murder case had gripped the nation for years and raised concerns over the use of social media.

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...