In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

On December 14, 1650, a 22-year-old woman named Anne Greene was executed. She was pronounced dead. Her body was placed in a ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s High Military Court in Kinshasa, the capital, has convicted on appeal the Congolese army ...

IT has become frighteningly easy to kill a human being on the streets of Nigeria. A rumour, a shout, or a baseless accusation is all that’s needed. A crowd gathers. Fists fly. Stones rain down. Tyres ...

This was not justice. It was savagery. It was lawlessness masquerading as righteousness. And it was a direct violation of Islam.

I know crime statutes and dates can be boring and hard to read. Please bear with me for a minute. These laws are written a certain way for a reason.

A notorious Holocaust denier who was extradited from Scotland after spending years on the run from authorities in France has ...

The final scene of Uwe Boll’s controversial new film Citizen Vigilante, in which a self-appointed avenger played by Armie ...

A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

ARLINGTON, VA (April 28, 2026) – CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA, a new four-part, eight-hour documentary series that explores the history of criminal justice in America — from the pre-colonial period ...

PBS will air the new four-part, eight-hour documentary series Crime and Punishment in America over four consecutive nights on PBS beginning November 16, 2026. The series explores the history of ...