It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set new execution dates for four inmates after a nearly three-year pause. The temporary ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Haryana Congress leaders had described Narwal as an active and dedicated party worker, who also took part in the Rahul Gandhi ...

His attorneys argued that there is an “unconscionable risk” he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than ...

Activists of a Maratha outfit staged a protest in Maharashtra’s Latur district on Tuesday, demanding that NCP leader Dhananjay Munde be named co-accused in the murder case of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

On February 15, the father of a minor girl filed a complaint of sexual assault and blackmail against several people. Later, ...

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