"Amber was haunted by the things she did," Bennett said. "She wanted to find forgiveness from the victim's family and God." In the execution room on Jan. 3, Bennett and McLaughlin spoke softly about ...

Every execution in Indiana since 1996, including those most recently of Joseph Corcoran and Benjamin Ritchie, has been carefully designed to make the viewer feel good about themselves. They might even ...

A man with a stethoscope and blue latex gloves entered the room, and for a minute he bent over Bryant, putting the stethoscope to different parts of his chest. At 6:05 a prison official declared that ...

Inside what looks like a normal, grey office block, lie the secretive execution rooms where Japan’s most notorious criminals are taken to be hanged. The country’s use of the death penalty has come ...

Sometimes I wonder what the soundtrack to my death will sound like. Today, I witnessed someone else’s. Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, slipped from the world in quiet, punctuated by prayers from Rev. Monica ...

ST. LOUIS — For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick, soundproof ...