Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

Chinese internet users face some of the world's strictest web censorship rules, but government departments have not warned ...

President Joe Biden’s Monday announcement that he would commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates should not be seen as an act of mercy for people convicted of awful crimes. It was a ...

On 5 January 2025, DRC’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba announced that more than 170 people, allegedly linked to criminal ...

The announcement comes just weeks before Trump is set to take office. The president-elect, whose first four-year term ended in 2021, has regularly called for the death penalty for undocumented ...

Biden's announcement, which is much more respectable ... True, a majority of Americans still support the death penalty according to converging polls, but this support is now the lowest measured ...

Kolkata: After the announcement that the verdict in the R G Kar rape and murder case will be pronounced at Sealdah trial court around 2.

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Yet the death penalty is expensive ... Of course, as Mr. Biden acknowledged in his Monday announcement, most people with death sentences in the United States committed heinous crimes and deserve ...