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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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