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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1898, the American colonial administration replaced Spain’s. The U.S. Naval government oversaw the island’s legal system and maintained capital punishment as the ultimate punishment.

The Indiana Department of Corrections says it does not have records showing the single-day cost of executing two death row ...

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