A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy marking one of ...

Despite receiving more than $1 million in ransom, Iouri Mikhel and his partner murdered five people - including a pregnant ...

The Idaho judge’s decision to deny defense motions relating to the death penalty is among the latest developments ahead of ...

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Trump commuted the sentence of local Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs, who was serving 17 years for his role in ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia signed a deal on Friday to repatriate an ailing French national who has been on death row ...

Zimbabwe has recently banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital ...

Amnesty International denounced Taiwan's execution of Huang Linkai on Thursday, calling the event a 'shameful setback' as it ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...