On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson could be dead by the time his appeal is heard. And what Paxton wants to do ...

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

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

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The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

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

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...