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The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

A video of Monojit Mishra, accused in a Kolkata gangrape case, demanding justice for a previous rape-murder victim has surfaced, highlighting his hypocrisy.

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, has accepted a plea deal that removes the ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

Sarah Milgrim’s father speaks out after her fatal shooting outside a D.C. museum. The suspect remains in custody.

In 1978, following an overhaul of Guam’s statutes by the Guam Law Revision Commission, the Guam Legislature eliminated capital punishment. I found no reference to any post-war civilian executions.

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...