A condemned child killer’s execution has been delayed so officials can study the feasibility of the man’s request to donate his organs.

Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.

Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.

Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

A 38-year-old man convicted of killing a woman with an axe during a burglary nearly two decades ago has been executed in the state of Delaware’s first death sentence since 2005.

A soldier who told investigators in horrifying detail that he and other members of his unit executed three civilians in Afghanistan for sport will not face the death penalty if convicted, the US Army said.

The US state of Virginia is today due to carry out its first execution of a woman in nearly a century amid appeals from the European Union and repercussions that reached as far away as Iran.

THE New Jersey Assembly has approved legislation to abolish the state’s death penalty.

The New Jersey Assembly approved legislation today to abolish the state’s death penalty.

Now that a US jury has delivered a verdict that al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty, his lawyers face an uphill battle as they try to save a client who apparently wants to die.

A North Carolina man was executed early today for the 1990 stabbing death of his wife despite the pleas of his four children, who sought clemency for their father.

Texas executed 33 people this year, the most of any US state and almost double the number put to death in Texas last year, a study showed.