After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

The families of the students murdered in Moscow, Idaho in the United States in 2022 reacted differently to Bryan Kohberger ...

The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

Mike Baker of The New York Times joins NewsNation to break down the Bryan Kohberger plea deal. Kohberger will avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho ...

There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters homicide. And perhaps most persuasive, nationwide since 1976, 172 persons convicted and sentenced to death have been released from death ...

Japan's worst criminals face their death inside a highly secretive execution room located inside a nondescript office block.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

But his attorneys asked Judge Steven Hippler to remove the death penalty as a possible punishment, citing Kohberger’s diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. They have also filed several other ...

Critics say there’s no evidence that castration prevents future sex offenses. Yet several states are weighing such measures.