Late last year, a Vietnamese court sentenced 27 people to death for trafficking 626kg of drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam.

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

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 ...

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.

The U.K.-based human rights group condemned Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the U.S. and Israel have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal pros­e­cutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in Unit­ed­Healthcare CEO's killing BY Associated Press and Spectrum News Staff Manhattan UPDATED 6:16 PM ET Apr. 01, 2025 ...