Gaston County prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty for the first time in 15 years in a case involving the ...

Even justices who upheld the death penalty in 1976 eventually concluded the system is too flawed to continue, citing ...

June 24 (Reuters) - A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for child rape, prosecutors today may be free to ...

"In order to be pro-life, as my faith instructs us to be, life needs to be from conception to natural death of everyone," ...

Volker Turk warns of surge in Iran executions to suppress dissent after January uprising.

For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital ...

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are again asking a federal judge in New York to block the Justice Department's attempt to seek the death penalty if he is convicted in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare ...

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Archaeologists in western Turkey recently discovered a detailed account of 1,600-year-old tax fraud so brazen that ancient ...

Prof Itse Sagay is a former chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC). In this interview with JOY ANIGBOGU, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), speaks on the ...