Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
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If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
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Insurgents threatening to kill three kidnapped UN workers said Sunday they have handed over a list of 26 prisoners, some possibly held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who they would take in exchange for the hostages.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire on Monday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Nearly two dozen detainees at the interrogation prison here tried to hang or strangle themselves during an eight-day period in 2003, including 10 attempts on a single day, the US military has disclosed.
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.
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Taliban-linked militants have threatened to execute three foreign UN workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country
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A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide.
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The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees who will likely face war-crimes charges would present new challenges to a troubled system that has yet to begin a single trial.
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Security forces braced for violence Thursday as three Christian militants awaited execution for leading a string of deadly attacks on Muslims, with thousands of police blocking roads leading to their prison, standing on street corners and guarding nearby churches.
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Although execution by lethal injection is under intense scrutiny, five convicted murderers on Utah's death row await that capital penalty.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.
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FBI agents in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, witnessed abuses of prisoners that included being left in their own feces, chained in ice-cold or super-hot cells
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, reportedly threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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Doctors at Guantanamo Bay&#39;s holding facility say some of the detainees are being treated for various mental disorders. detainees of Camp Delta were suffering from mental disorders, with half of that figure requiring medication.