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

Jasmin Thompson is charged with second degree murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

"Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty. Don't tell Mum anything," his father recalled, reiterating his son's innocence. Later, opposition activist group 1500 Tasvir published an ...

A heartbreaking scene from a recent Aubrey Plaza film has resurfaced after the tragic death of her husband in real life. Plaza’s director and writer husband Jeff Baena unexpectedly died at age ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

The question of a good death, of dying with dignity, however, has a far longer history. Philosophers, poets, divines and those about to die have long pondered and refined ars moriendi: “the art of ...

MORE than twenty years ago an American artist was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack as ... from the US in 1998 to study at Slade School of Art. She had even set up her own art studio in ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty with the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act. According to a government gazette released on Tuesday, the new law stipulates that no court ...