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Lawyer Mona El-Tayeb concluded that any death sentence by stoning is a grave violation of the right to life and the prohibition of torture and cruel or inhuman punishments, which is in direct ...

Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection for the 1986 murder of 70-year-old Virgie Langford, a mother of four on the verge of retirement.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

A man convicted of killing a grocery store owner during a robbery is set Tuesday evening to become the second person executed ...

Interviews with the two brothers highlight their brothers' rapidly declining mental health before his death. A neighbor also shares her story about seeing him days before officers found him dead.

By outlawing indefinite solitary confinement for death row inmates, Oklahoma joins states like Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York, which have ended this practice in recent years. Some prisoners remain ...

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, police said.

The Warner Theatre will present Requiem for an Electric Chair, a powerful one-man play by award-winning Congolese playwright ...