North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on death row to life without parole after ...

Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the ...

India on Tuesday said it was extending all possible help to explore relevant options in the case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

The Death Penalty Abolition Act, published in Government Gazette on Tuesday, says courts can no longer deliver a sentence of ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...

A lawmaker wants the death penalty back — by firing squad, rather than by lethal injection. House Bill No. 11211, filed by ...

Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20-years after the last capital punishment was carried out.View on euronews ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...

Miss you didi. The accused should be hanged to death’, reads a huge hoarding put up at the main entrance of a bylane in ...