BAGHDAD (WCSC) — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging nearly 20 years ago. Hussein had ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003. He ...

Sometimes, in the quiet of the night, attorney Gerald Bo King sees his client, Brad Sigmon, die — again and again. The silence reminds him of the moments in the death chamber before the guns went off.

The Iranian authorities accused the men of killing two police officers during anti-government protests in January. Human rights groups had raised concerns about the cases against them. By Yeganeh ...

Florida has executed its second inmate of the year even as a Supreme Court justice questioned the state's “deeply troubling" record on lethal injections and how it "shrouds its executions in secrecy." ...