Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has vowed to fight for the next 40 days to save the life of a US death row inmate whose execution was postponed at the last minute.

Pakistan has postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged.

A man freed after nearly 30 years on death row in the US said the people who played a part in his conviction will have to “answer to God”.

A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row has been freed after a decades-long fight to prove his innocence.

As much of the US debates the use of lethal injections against a backdrop of drug scarcity and botched executions, Tennessee has found an alternative — the electric chair.