Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, has accepted a plea deal that removes the ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...

In Delhi's Ashok Nagar, a 19-year-old woman died. She was allegedly pushed from her rooftop. The suspect, known to the victim ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

A video of Monojit Mishra, accused in a Kolkata gangrape case, demanding justice for a previous rape-murder victim has surfaced, highlighting his hypocrisy.

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, a death-row inmate convicted of killing nine people he met on social media, was executed Friday — the ...

The court awarded the death penalty to Lala based on the evidence and arguments put forward by the prosecution and held that ...

Japan executed on Friday a man convicted of the 2017 serial murders of nine people near Tokyo, the government said, marking ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...