The number of executions carried out worldwide reached its highest known level in 44 years during 2025, according to a new ...

Iran carried out at least 2,159 of the approximately 2,707 executions recorded worldwide last year, according to Amnesty ...

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others ...

The number of recorded death-penalty executions last year was 2,707, a 78% increase compared to the previous year, according ...

First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed James Broadnax for a 2008 double murder.

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

Florida accounted for nearly half of US executions in 2025, according to Amnesty International’s new annual report on the ...

Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to ...

Amnesty International's annual report on capital punishment documented a surge in global executions to their highest level ...