Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

SB 33 will create the California Success, Opportunity and Academic Resilience (CalSOAR) Program to temporarily provide ...

The University of Idaho victims' families are split on a plea deal for Bryan Kohberger that spares him the potential death ...

The plea was heard by Justices Vikram Seth and Sandeep Mehta. The plea was filed by an organisation called "Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council". The petitioner urged that the Centre can ...

The death penalty, Japan's ultimate punishment, has been carried out in the country for the first time in two years and 11 ...

Michael Bell is to be executed on July 15 for murdering two people outside a Jacksonville bar Dec. 9, 1993, when he went on a ...

With two prisoners set to be executed this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis will achieve the dubious record of having executed more people in a year than any other Florida governor, writes Archbishop ...

Newsreader Ruby Cornish had to rush to correct the broadcaster's take on the scandal surrounding Voss, which has resulted in ...

Punjab Government will table a draft Bill in the Vidhan Sabha on Friday, the second day of a two-day special session, to address the sensitive issue of sacrilege with tougher legal provisions. However ...

The Maryland cases were originally scheduled for separate trials, but the defendants requested a joint proceeding despite concerns from their attorneys; a judge granted the request following a court ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Welcome to the initial biweekly “ScotusCrim” column for SCOTUSblog, which we hope ...

The Madison County Council has approved $37,000 to pay overtime costs for the capital murder trial of Carl Roy Webb Boards II ...