As the ninth World Day against the Death Penalty raises the awareness of the inhumanity of the law and calls for an end to capital punishment - we take a look at the five countries that carried out ...

A Vietnam court sentenced 11 people to death on Wednesday, including two police officers, after finding them guilty of ...

Japan's worst criminals face their death inside a highly secretive execution room located inside a nondescript office block.

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program.

H ANOI: A Vietnam court sentenced 11 people to death today, including two police officers, after finding them guilty of trafficking drugs over the border from Laos, state media reported.

Amnesty International has accused a controversial system to distribute aid in Gaza of using starvation tactics against ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters homicide. And perhaps most persuasive, nationwide since 1976, 172 persons convicted and sentenced to death have been released from death ...