capital punishment

Jacques Fesch was arrested in Paris on February 25, 1954 after having committed a hold-up at a currency exchange stand. While fleeing the scene, he killed a policeman and wounded three persons.

Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here's why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.

Gerard Fesch was 40 when he learned his father, Jacques Fesch, had been executed for murder in France.

Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here's why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.
Iran's leaders

Even with the Iran nuclear deal, the country still has an alarming record on human rights

Even with the Iran nuclear deal, the country still has an alarming record on human rights
The death chamber at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas is seen through steel bars from the viewing room.

Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates

Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates
President Barack Obama talks to Cardinal Sean O'Malley during an interfaith memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013.

Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?

Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.

Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists

Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown in a courtroom sketch on the first day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 5, 2015.

Massachusetts isn't OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jurors had to be

The state of Massachusetts doesn't allow the death penalty, and most of the state's residents are against it. But for the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the jurors who decided his fate in a federal trial had to allow for that possibility.

Massachusetts isn't OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's jurors had to be
Yellow ribbons adorn portraits of South Korean students who died in the mid-April ferry disaster. South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, 68, the captain of the ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people dead o

South Korea considers the death penalty for the man who shipwrecked a ferry

Six months after the ferry crash that killed nearly 300 people, among them many high school students, South Korea is considering executing the vessel's captain. It would be the country's first use of capital punishment in almost 20 years, but many South Koreans simply want to move on.

South Korea considers the death penalty for the man who shipwrecked a ferry