The courts play a vital role in ensuring fairness and justice, as evidenced by the recent Fischer v. United States Supreme ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

The last executions in the United Kingdom took place in 1964, and capital punishment for murder was then formally abolished ...

According to Truong Viet Toan, former Deputy Chief Judge of the Criminal Court under the Hanoi People’s Court, the Ministry ...

BY DAVID BASSEY ANTIA The recent judicial pronouncement sentencing Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer ...

The amendments in the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill increase the mandatory minimum sentence for non-capital ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Does killing a killer kill justice?

The Supreme Court has upheld the decision to allow a two-judge bench to hear appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, ...

Mumbai: A special sessions court has refused to grant bail to Afzal Usmani, alleged to be a key accused in the 2008 Gujarat ...

Please join us on Saturday, May 10 at 12:30pm-2:30pm EDT for the fourth webinar in this monthly series on the abolition of ...