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

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

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More than 70% of countries across the world have abolished capital punishment, said the Death Penalty Information Center, a US-based non-profit organisation tracking wrongful executions.

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

The main accused in the Kasba gangrape case Monojit Mishra wanted capital punishment for the culprits of the RG Kar rape case ...

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

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

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine ...