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

In Delhi's Ashok Nagar, a 19-year-old woman died. She was allegedly pushed from her rooftop. The suspect, known to the victim ...

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

The Indiana Department of Corrections does not have records of the single-day cost of executing death row inmates Joseph ...

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

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

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