All news on the topic: Death Penalty

James Barber was executed in Alabama in the early hours of Friday morning for the 2001 murder of a 75-year-old woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a review into their use

James Barber, 64, was pronounced dead at 1.56am after receiving a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison - his last words were addressed to the family of his victim

Robert Bowers, the gunman who brutally killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty for his crims.

A death row inmate has walked free after 29 years. Barry Jones was on death row in Arizona after he was wrongly found guilty of fatally assaulting a four-year-old girl

Anti-death penalty advocates were not able to stop 12 people from being executed in the US this year. The majority of Americans still support the punishment and more are scheduled for later this year

Bryan Patrick Miller waived his right to a jury trial after he was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and attempted assault for the murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas

Michael Tisius had a last meal of two bacon cheeseburgers, curly fries, regular fries and a chocolate milkshake before being executed by lethal injection at the Missouri state prison

Killer Michael Tisius has been executed on Death Row in Missouri for the murder of two jailers in 2002 when he was just 19 - he died from lethal injection in the 12th execution in the country this year despite outcry over his sentence

Michael Tisius was sentenced to death 23 years ago after attempting to break an inmate he had shared a cell with out of prison in June 2000, shooting and killing two prison officers in the process

A killer in Florida is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter in 1990. A jury voted 10 to two in favour of the penalty for Joseph Zieler

The lawyer for death row inmate Richard Glossip has said his client is 'out of peril for now' after the US Supreme Court agreed to halt the planned execution

Gasps were heard as death row inmate Richard Glossip lost his appeal for clemency with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, despite Attorney General Gentner Drummond attending on his behalf

Troy Victorino 46, and Jerone Hunter, 35, were convicted and sentenced to death for the 2004 Xbox murder in Deltona, US but had their sentences overturned in 2017 after a law change

Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was convicted of killing the Sturmfels in their Flagler County winter home. He stole from the house a clock, two lamps and a videocassette recorder which he wanted to give to his girlfriend as a present

The harrowing case of Lori Vallow Daybell, which includes murder charges, a doomsday cult and multiple deaths, has now been made into Netflix series Sins of Our Mother

Hussein Abu al-Khair, 57, was a driver for a wealthy Saudi and was arrested by authorities in 2014 for allegedly carrying amphetamine pills across the border from Jordan

The unexplained poisoning incidents have come at a fraught time for young girls in Iran who have been targeted for their role in leading nationwide anti-government protests

Donald David Dillbeck, 59, is scheduled to die tomorrow, February 23, for the 1990 murder of Faye Vann in Tallahassee, and advocates are preparing to protest the capital punishment in Florida, US

Accused Jamshid Sharmahd - who holds joint German-Iranian nationality and lives in the US - is said to have been a CIA spy linked to a mosque bombing that killed 14

The men set to be executed had been found guilty of killing thousands of military recruits in Iraq in 2014, as terror group ISIS carried out what was one of the worst massacre's in the country's history

An independent report uncovered major errors in Tennessee's lethal injection protocols as multiple executions were carried out without testing the drugs used in the death penalty process

Prominent preacher and academic Awad Al-Qarni, who often appeared on TV shows in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in 2017 at the start of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's crackdown against dissent

Scott Eizember, 62, was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, US, for the deaths of A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70, in 2003

Scott Eizember, 62, will be killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, US, for the deaths of A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70

Alireza Akbari, who served as deputy defence minister during the tenure of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been sentenced to death in Iran after being accused of spying for the UK