Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

In one of his final acts of office, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made a shocking move surrounding the death sentences ...

HARARE: Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty on Tuesday, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the ...

Miss you didi. The accused should be hanged to death’, reads a huge hoarding put up at the main entrance of a bylane in ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this ...

The recent execution of convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran has sparked a conversation about the death penalty in the state of Indiana. In 2025, lawmakers will decide whether to abolish it.

Here is a list of 10 news events selected by the U-B staff that had a significant impact in the Valley in 2024.

President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death ...

India is actively offering support to Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen. Priya, from Kerala, faces capital punishment for allegedly killing a Yemeni citizen. The Ministry of ...

The Utah Supreme Court has signaled interest in a legal challenge filed by a group of death row inmates against the state's ...