Rarely has a day gone by in the past few years where I haven't been told by someone that the Constitution of the United States of America is absolute, or that true freedom is defined in some fashion as the government not regulating our lives or our choices in any way, shape, or  …

At least the British press is covering the trial of Shawna Forde for this outrageous murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores & her father by the renegade Minutemen operative.

The Lone Star state, which has executed 464 people (70% of whom were minorities) in the years since the 70s is being sued by lawyers representing John Edward green, Jr, a convicted murderer, on the grounds that the system as it works in Texas is too flawed and too prone to error.

For the last 10 years sexual orientation has been included in a list of discriminatory grounds for executions – gay rights activists say the vote to remove that listing is "dangerous and disturbing."

Only three countries - Iran, Saudia Arabia and Sudan - are known to have executed an individual since the beginning of 2009 for a crime committed before age 18 said the Human Rights Watch on October 8, 2010.

While a number of Americans cite religion as the most important influence on shaping their opinion on key social issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion and the death penalty, religious attitudes play a substantially lesser role when it comes to opinions on poverty, immigratio …

Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery without evidence. Found report saying they suspended her stoning. Don't know if she is still locked up.

An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation.

Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia since his 1991 conviction for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, sat in white prison scrubs with chains on his waist, as his lawyers presented their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in a rare innocence appeal Wednesday.

Next month this murderer will be strapped to a chair with a target pinned over his heart, and shot by five riflemen with silver bullets. What's more, it's the death he wants. The last thing Ronnie Lee Gardner will see on this earth will be five men clutching hunting rifles.

In 1999 Uganda's President Yowerie Museveni declared that Uganda's homosexuals should be rounded up and imprisoned. Homosexuality has long been punishable by a lifetime prison sentence in Uganda, but lately the situation has deteriorated...

The scene outside the Huntsville unit of the Texas state penitentiary last Wednesday evening was a familiar one. Police officers stood casually outside the imposing red-brick walls as a small group of passionate opponents of the death penalty railed against a punishment they say …

Phoenix - Special precautions were taken because of his religion...............