An Arizona death row prisoner has asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution ...

KOCHI: Parents and close relatives of murdered Youth Congress workers Kripesh and Sarath Lal P K said the CBI court verdict was not fully satisfactory.Kripesh’s ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Expressing a swell of pride mixed with sorrow, Rifat’s father Md Aowlad Hossain (55) said, “I have no sorrow at the death of ...

By A Correspondent Last Maengahama, a former political prisoner, has hailed the abolition of the death penalty as a significant relief and a monumental step forward for Zimbabwe. In a recent ...

Opinion: If you want to deter death penalty crimes, work to encourage more citizen cooperation with law enforcement; seek to end the huge shortage of forensic laboratories and forensic personnel ...

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, in a weekly press briefing, said New Delhi is ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after a 20-year hiatus, joining the growing list of countries moving away from capital punishment. In this video, we explore which countries have ...

There has been a moratorium on executions in the southern African country since 2005, although courts have continued to hand ...

Barron’s The United Nations on Thursday welcomed Zimbabwe’s abolition of the death penalty, and called on other countries to ...

The law was assented to by President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the nation’s cabinet agreed to scrap capital punishment in June ...

Nimisha Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala's Palakkad district, has been reportedly handed capital punishment for ...