France says China has executed a French citizen convicted of drug trafficking after more than 15 years on death row.

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death penalty. On Monday, Cruz's defense attorneys claimed that the shooter’s brain was “poisoned” by his mom's drinking and drug abuse when she was pregnant.

Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more expensive due to lengthy trials, extensive appeals, and specialized housing for inmates.

Far-right supporters of a controversial Israeli death penalty law were popping champagne corks as it cleared the Knesset on Monday night, but its passage has sparked a global chorus of condemnation.

After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the commonwealth.

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely cost taxpayers over $1 million or potentially much more.

By Maayan Lubell and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks,

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories after Israel's parliament passing a law mandating the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic murder.

Director Joel Fendelman and producer James Chase Sanchez discuss their doc on Jeff Hood, The Spiritual Advisor, out now from Rolling Stone and Documentary+

A French citizen convicted of drug trafficking has been executed in China after being kept on death row for more than 15 years.