Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...

Punjab's government is consulting legal experts to draft a law for stricter punishment for sacrilege against religious ...

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Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

The editors condemned the senseless killings of victims, even where ransom payments have been made, describing such acts as ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

Vietnam has officially removed the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, including embezzlement, bribery, and the ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

As CNN describes, “Forensic DNA testing from trash outside the Kohberger family home gave Idaho law enforcement the probable ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims.

Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...