Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone.

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

A former police officer convicted of the murder of two men in 2013 has been executed on Wednesday (Feb 5). Iskandar bin ...

Iskandar Rahmat was found guilty of the murder of two men - a car workshop owner and his son - and sentenced to death on Dec ...

Sentencing Lal Singh Oraon to death, Judge Biplab Roy, Additional Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, Jalpaiguri said that he found no ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Stakeholders in the justice sector have argued that the death penalty as a punishment for grievous offences does not deter crime.

Advises the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use, with special attention to crimes involving the murder of law enforcement or capital crimes ...

A convicted killer will test the limits of Queensland's 'no body, no parole' law in the High Court today, after being denied ...

Zimbabwe is not a country known for its commitment to human rights. But after a ten year campaign by local NGO Veritas with support from the current President Emerson Mnangagwa, legislation has been ...

Reform MPs have called for a debate on bringing back the death penalty after the Southport killer's sentencing.