The Supreme Court yesterday (July 16) converted the death penalty to life imprisonment without remission, extending to the ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

The deferral of Nimisha Priya’s execution abroad brings home difficult questions about how India uses, and misuses, the death ...

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta observed the trial court and the Uttarakhand High Court only ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without ...

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

More than 43 years after Janet White was abducted from a Bay County office and murdered, Gov. DeSantis signed a death warrant ...

Death penalty or no death penalty, Thomas used the Ruben Gutierrez case to carry on his crusade of constitutional purification. And it shows the depth of his commitment to turning back the ...

The Supreme Court sentenced two death row convicts to life imprisonment, emphasizing the need to consider psychological and social factors in capital cases.

"The Courts' enthusiasm to deliver justice in such a heinous crime ensures that the accused person ends up on the death row, ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a slew of directions to ensure forensic evidence like DNA in criminal cases is collected ...