A Dublin mother last night made an emotional plea for authorities to bring home her pregnant daughter who could face the death penalty in Laos.

Samantha Orobator’s heartbroken mother Jane wept as she appealed to have her four daughters reunited.

The 20-year-old Briton faces death by firing squad if convicted of drug smuggling. Her trial starts today.

Former primary schoolteacher wants retrial after conviction for taking part in murder

A British woman on death row in Texas made a final bid this week to avoid

execution and have her case re-tried. Her family and campaigners claim

that she was not properly represented at her original trial and that she

is innocent of the murder for which she was convicted.

Staggering expense of death penalty spurs states to consider abolishing it

After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty might be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong:

Money.

This morning I watched as lethal drugs flowed into the veins of a man.

Steve Henley was a murderer, or at least that's what the courts decided when they convicted him of shooting an elderly farm couple and burning down the house with their bodies inside. He lived under a death sentence for 23 years.

"I'm an innocent man."