Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

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The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

Another student who has come forward with allegations said that Mishra threatened to kill her parents and abduct her sister ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

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

Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald says petty criminals who can’t afford bail should be given corporal punishment. Groenewald made the suggestion while delivering his budget vote in the ...

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

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

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

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...