The Israeli parliament advanced two controversial bills on Monday, including one that would expand the use of the death penalty for convicted “terrorists” and individuals found guilty of ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — Kentucky’s attorney general is continuing to push for restoring the death penalty for a convicted cop killer. Gov. Andy Beshear said a regulatory process must work out first ...

Political correspondent Sam Sokol on a fresh discussion on a state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7; tech editor Sharon ...

Degel HaTorah, a major ultra-Orthodox political party in Israel, said it will oppose a proposed law to impose the death ...

Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd using nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has raised national concern over the use of the method, with witnesses describing the execution as ...

The Israeli parliament has advanced the Israel death penalty bill in the first vote. The bill would allow the death penalty ...

More than 100 countries have abolished capitol punishment-but at least 100 others still use it. In Saudi Arabia, executions are public. In China, selling a panda skin is a capitol offense. Around the ...

Archbishop Paul Coakley was appointed as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday.

The state of Florida has had 15 executions so far this year. Twice as many as last year. The execution ofNorman Grim raises ...