Penenden Heath is now a "nice country park" in Kent, but the land has a "dark history". Tour guide and amateur historian Shane Waterman told Secret Kent that executions took place at the site from at ...

The history of capital punishment in Indiana is long, twisting and beset by problems. The process that led to the early-morning Oct. 10 execution of Roy Lee Ward at the Indiana State Prison in ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

Louisiana is resuming executions for the first time Tuesday night after a 15-year pause. Louisiana is one of 27 states that still uses the death penalty as a form of punishment. Sign up for our ...

Florida is set to carry out its first execution of the year, with Ronald Heath to be executed for a murder committed in 1989.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...