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

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.

Wyandotte County judge agreed with death penalty criticisms but said the case was invalid because both defendants no longer ...

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

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

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

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

Does killing a killer kill justice?

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

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...

“It’s time for Ohio to stop spending millions of dollars to prop up this broken system,” Ohioans to Stop Executions Executive Director Kevin Werner argued. “Repealing the death penalty is not just ...