An Iranian court has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday. The sentencing brings to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty in a mass trial over the unrest following ...

A man with a genius IQ who is charged with killing five females has donned an earring and taken the witness stand in Southern California. Rodney Alcala, who is representing himself in his potential death penalty trial, took the stand Tuesday after using a mirror to ...

After a relative lull in the number of executions Ohio carries out annually, it appears poised to sharply increase lethal injections in the months to come, possibly setting a state record for most in a year. The state executed condemned killer Mark Brown on Thursday, the ...

Chinese state media say one person has been sentenced to death and 24 sentenced to prison in nine kidnapping cases. The state-run Xinhua News Agency says two courts in the capital of the southern province of Guangdong handed down the sentences Thursday. Xinhua at first reported that ...