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 ...

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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 ...

The 24-year-old law student said she was blackmailed with a video and forced into a security guard's room on June 25, where Monojit Mishra and two seniors allegedly gangraped her.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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