Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether a death row inmate lives or dies.

Sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed at 9:11 p.m. for the Oct. 9, 2002, slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, who was shot at a Manassas-area gas station.

Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, the official China News Service reported Monday.

Marion Lewis says if he had his way, he’d take Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad into the Idaho desert near his home and kill him slowly, over three days.

A South Carolina board today unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner who were executed for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran.

A federal appeals court has halted the execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor, citing last month’s failed attempt to execute another inmate in Ohio.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a man on death row for the 1988 slayings of two college sweethearts.

A federal jury is recommending the death penalty for a West Virginia man convicted of killing a sailor in a murder-for-hire plot.

A Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate could file an appeal plans to testify at the ethics trial where she faces charges that could end her career.

The former head of Beijing airport’s management company was executed Friday following his conviction on corruption charges, state media reported, making him the latest figure brought down in China’s battle against widespread graft.

Kenya’s president says all prisoners on death row will immediately have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

The number of prisoners put to death worldwide decreased in 2008, a human rights group said Wednesday, adding that China retained its position as the world’s top executioner.

A man who took part in a 1992 Christmas holiday killing rampage that left six people dead and two wounded was executed Tuesday, the state’s second execution in less than two weeks.

Saudi authorities have beheaded a man who was convicted of killing a man in a dispute.

A former truck driver from Oregon who went on a multistate killing rampage was executed today for murdering an Ohio man who gave him a ride in February 1991.