The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

If convicted, they face the death penalty, or life imprisonment with whipping. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

I cannot stop crying. It’s not just about my family in Tehran living through bombing again, it’s about all the Iranians ...

Several organizations signed a joint statement on Wednesday, calling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to put an end to the use of ...

The legal change is set to spare the life of the tycoon Truong My Lan, who was sentenced to death last year for her role in a ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Starting next month, Vietnam will abolish the death penalty for a number of crimes, including financi ...

Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty for eight categories of criminal offenses: embezzlement, bribery, counterfeiting medicines, espionage, ...

The 15th National Assembly on June 25 adopted the Law on amendments and supplements to certain articles of the Penal Code, in ...

Vietnam`s Criminal Code amendment reduces capital punishment offenses from 18 to 10, commuting some death sentences to life ...

Carlos Pineda scored the decisive penalty shot as Honduras beat Panama in a shootout after the teams played to a 1-1 draw in ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the United States to potentially offer refuge to ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, Japan's 'Twitter Killer', was executed on 2 July for murdering nine people in 2017 after luring them ...