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

The Uttarakhand High Court has appointed an amicus curiae to assist it in reviewing capital punishment awarded to a murder convict by a Haridwar court. A division bench of the high court comprising ...

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Amid the growing uproar over the alleged gangrape of a law student in South Kolkata, the surviour's father has broken his silence, demanding capital punishment for prime accused Monojit Mishra and two ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Another student who has come forward with allegations said that Mishra threatened to kill her parents and abduct her sister from her school if she did not let him do what he wanted, and sexually ...

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

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

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

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

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