Since the beginning of the year, Iran...

After receiving the death penalty for his role...

Shocking.

There are pictures.

"Jihadi John" is the big boss.

A state of "national emergency".

Alstory Simon spent 15 years in prison for a...

Clearly ill.

In 1992, Scott Panetti shaved his head. Then...

ISIS has released a video purporting to show another hostage beheading. The victim is Alan Henning, a British taxi driver who was kidnapped while delivering aid to Syria last December. Henning’s captors had threatened to kill him in a video from last month, which showed the execution of UK hostage […]

Two North Carolina men were...

A French journalist who became close with American journalist James Foley while the two were held hostage by ISIS in Syria spoke to the BBC Thursday about the kind of friend Foley was under the extreme circumstances of their captivity. Nicolas Henin was held for ten months before his April […]

Former comrades of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe...

A death-row inmate scheduled to be put to death...

The US president, Barack Obama, has said the...

We know Americans speak differently from one...

The Pew Research Center, sourcing the Death...

Amnesty International has published a report...

China defended the death penalty Thursday as a...

An execution scheduled for Tuesday, October 15, in Florida will use a new, untested drug, despite concerns that it might fail to work as intended and inflict pain on the prisoner, First Coast Newsreports. William Happ, 51, will receive a lethal injection “cocktail” of three drugs, the first of which […]

The video has been watched over 2 million times.

Execute.

A grim milestone.

More than any other country in the world.

[credit provider=”Amnesty International”] Amnesty International launched a jarring anti-capital punishment campaign that depicts the last meal requests of executed men who were later proved or presumed innocent.One example is Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted and executed in Texas for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. Thirteen years […]

This year’s Booz & Co. report on the world’s largest R&D spenders focused on the “front end” of innovation. This is essentially the very beginning of the process, or the idea creation phase.  

[credit provider=”ap”] Since his father’s sudden death, reports have surfaced that Kim Jong-un has been purging the North Korean military of “unsound elements” in order to tighten his grip on power. It’s not a new policy; Kim Jong-il executed plenty of his father’s advisors and dissenters after Kim Il-sung passed away […]

[credit provider=”Florida State Prison System via CNN” url=”http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/23/lawyer-files-request-for-emergency-stay-of-execution-for-florida-man-who-killed-8/comment-page-4/”] The state of Florida is set to execute a mass murderer tonight who’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia.A federal appeals court issued an eight-page order Monday allowing the execution of John Ferguson, who believes he’s the “prince of God” and will come back […]

If you attend business school, you can expect to read a lot of case studies. Professors love them because they offer real-world examples of why businesses succeed and fail.There are some classic cases that every business student should know, like why Apple changed its name and how Ryanair beat two […]

[credit provider=”Getty Images/Joe Raedle”] Despite the fact her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was convicted centuries ago of entertaining “familiarity with Satan,” Bernice Telian is continuing her fight to clear her ancestor’s name.Mary Barnes and 10 others were convicted of witchcraft and hanged in the gallows between 1647 and 1663 but now their descendants […]

New York state resident Tina Curl just wants to get to South Dakota to see the execution of the man who raped and killed her 9-year-old daughter in 1990.

Maybe it’s the Facebook craze, or the warped view of entrepreneurialism that Hollywood and mainstream media have created. 

Last week, researchers at Columbia University released a detailed, book-length account of how Texas probably executed an innocent man, Carlos DeLuna, in 1989.