The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

Mandauehanons have expressed varying opinions regarding the proposed House Bill imposing the death penalty on corrupt ...

A Republican lawmaker wants Arizona voters to allow executions by firing squad because, he says, riddling convicts with bullets is 'always humane.' ...

Mark Weaver’s opinion editorial Jan. 2 misses the point on the death penalty: the problem isn’t just how the system is or isn’t working for victims’ families — it’s the death penalty itself. This ...

The Kolkata trial court which convicted civic volunteer Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case did not mince its words ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

The Death Penalty Project has done research in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean that has shown repeatedly that such perceptions — about public opinion being strongly in favour of retention of a ...

The sentencing of Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, is set for today. A ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday (Jan 16), upsetting both rights groups and the European ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...