Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hodan Mohamud Diiriye was sentenced to death after her trial at the end of last year [BBC] The authorities in Puntland, a ...

The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she was sent to the gallows for murdering her "abusive" lover, their lawyers ...

ST. LOUIS — Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for ...

The suit, filed on Jan. 8, argues that the new protocol — it relies on a single drug, pentobarbital, to induce respiratory and cardiac arrest, instead of the three-drug cocktail Tennessee used for ...

The authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case in the region in which the death penalty has been ...