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

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

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson could be dead by the time his appeal is heard. And what Paxton wants to do ...

In Delhi's Ashok Nagar, a 19-year-old woman died. She was allegedly pushed from her rooftop. The suspect, known to the victim ...

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

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

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

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Japan’s Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...