Vietnam has officially removed the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, including embezzlement, bribery, and the ...

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

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

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

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

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

Senator Ronald Bato Dela Rosa has refiled the measure that seeks to reinstate the capital punishment of death through lethal ...

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

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

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case ...