For Father’s Day, Summer Shockley drove 60 or so miles from her home in Rolla through central Missouri to see her dad at ...

The death penalty remains a divisive issue in Taiwan, with activists calling for it to be abolished. Although a court ruling limits the use of capital punishment, a recent execution has drawn ...

As national and local debates over the death penalty intensify, legal expert Corinna Barrett Lain discusses Idaho's recent ...

Ralph Baze has spent more than three decades in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff ...

A Global Assessment on Torture Risk The OMCT Global Torture Index , which published its first edition in June 2025, compares 27 countries across ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

SC is right. India should have a debate on what can replace hanging when it comes to capital punishment  Supreme Court’s lament about govt not willing to modernise the delivery of death sentence – ...

Before debating whether hanging or lethal injection is cruel, India must ask the bigger question: Does death penalty actually ...

Norman Fletcher said that before he joined the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1989, he had given little thought to the death penalty. He had never tried or defended a death penalty case and, because of ...

Bangladesh prosecution seeks death penalty for ex-PM Sheikh Hasina - Chief prosecutor Tajul Islam calls for former home ...

William Arnold ‘Billy’ Armendariz III is ‘worth saving,’ said his attorney, who argued for life in prison. The prosecutor ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...