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

Official reports say that at least 39 top military commanders and 14 nuclear scientists were killed during the war.

For several nights this month, Nader Mohandesi stayed up till 2 am in his Bengaluru home watching television news about the ...

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

Taiwan’s vice-president, Hsiao Bi-khim, says she won’t be intimidated after report citing Czech intelligence revealed an alleged Chinese plot to stage a car crash during her visit to Prague last year.

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

In one of the most disturbing and widely discussed criminal cases in Japan’s history, Takahiro Shiraishi — known as the ...

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

Starting in the late 1990s and 2000s, Wisconsin’s “truth-in-sentencing” law, which requires people convicted of crimes to serve their full prison sentences with longer paroles, resulted in both a ...

The German parliament has passed a law, previously supported by the government, that suspends family reunification ...