The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

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

The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and ...

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

Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald says petty criminals who can’t afford bail should be given corporal punishment. Groenewald made the suggestion while delivering his budget vote in the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, ...

Originally from Pennsylvania, Kohberger was a Washington State University Ph.D. student of criminology who lived just 10 ...

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

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, ...

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Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...