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

The Death Penalty Abolition Act, published in Government Gazette on Tuesday, says courts can no longer deliver a sentence of ...

Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s leader since 2017, has publicly spoken of his opposition to capital punishment. He has cited his ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden’s commutation of the death sentences of 37 out of 40 men on federal death row in advance of a Trump administration that’s eager to speed up executions was a meaningful act of ...

India on Tuesday said it was extending all possible help to explore relevant options in the case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian ...

Dissent in Indian and U.S. judiciaries varies from political to social to intellectual disagreements, shaping legal ...

Nimisha Priya, hailing from Kerala, has been reportedly handed capital punishment for allegedly murdering a Yemeni citizen.

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