As the ninth World Day against the Death Penalty raises the awareness of the inhumanity of the law and calls for an end to capital punishment - we take a look at the five countries that carried out ...

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

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, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the 'Twitter killer', faced execution for the murder of nine individuals. He lured victims ...

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