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Byline: Rebecca Ratcliffe South-East Asia correspondent Kokila Annamalai, a prominent Singaporean activist, has spent years supporting death row inmates and their families as they fight to avoid execution. So, when [...]

With his execution on hold, Robert Roberson is set to testify at a Texas House hearing about his conviction, which was based in part on a questionable diagnosis of shaken [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware, Tobi Raji Correction: A previous version of this article gave an incorrect figure for the number of people who have been exonerated since 1989 after being convicted [...]

Robert Roberson could be the first person put to death in connection with shaken baby syndrome. The state's highest criminal court ruled in another case that the science had changed. […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for migrants who kill United States citizens or members of law enforcement, as part of an incendiary rally in [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Kim Bellware Critics of the death penalty are speaking out a day after Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, who for years maintained he was innocent in the 1998 [...]

Byline: Mackenzie Konjoyan Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, spoke at an event on Oct. 22 at American University urging students to use their voting [...]

Byline: Benedict Smith, US Reporter Donald Trump has pledged that any migrants who kill American citizens will face the death penalty if he is elected. The Republican presidential candidate made [...]

Chairman, Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Allama Dr Raghib Hussain Naeemi has made it clear there is no room in Islam or Shariah for 'public justice' particularly in sensitive matters [...]

The case of Marcellus Williams, 55, who has maintained his innocence in a 1998 killing, has pitted a local prosecutor against the state's attorney general. In a Missouri prosecutor's unusual [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe A military judge overseeing the cases against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks will examine if it was legal for Defense [...]

A case that had mostly drifted from public consciousness in 12 years of proceedings is back in the spotlight and no closer to trial. In the space of three days [...]

Singapore has executed a man for trafficking 36.93g of heroin, making it the city-state's second hanging this year. The 45-year-old man was sent to the gallows at the Changi prison [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette, Joe Heim Jim Smith wasn't sure if he'd heard correctly when he got the call this week from the Justice Department. A plea deal? The men charged [...]

The accused mastermind of 9/11 has accepted a plea deal to avoid a death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay-and instead will be sentenced to a year for each life he [...]

Byline: Nicola Smith ASIA CORRESPONDENT CHINA has told Taiwanese migrant workers they do not need to fear a new death penalty mandate so long as they do not break the [...]

Toomaj Salehi had been sentenced to death in April after releasing music in support of antigovernment demonstrations two years ago. Iran's supreme court has overturned the death sentence of a [...]

Byline: Lois Beckett Donald Trump has spent years complaining that American police and the criminal legal system should be ' very much tougher,' arguing that some criminals should not be [...]

Brussels: European Union External Action Service has issued the following news release: The EU Delegation and the diplomatic missions of the EU Member States and of Norway and Switzerland deplore [...]

Moscow: Presidential Executive Office of Russia has issued the following news release: Vladimir Putin signed executive orders pardoning Paul Nicholas Whelan, Kevin Lik, Evan Gershkovich, Demuri Voronin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Alsu [...]

Switzerland is continuing to act for a world without capital punishment. Universal abolition is one of the Federal Council's 202427 Foreign Policy Strategy objectives and one of the four thematic [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: New judiciary guidelines in China specify that crimes of secession by Taiwanese 'separatists' are punishable under Chinese [...]

Byline: Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Texas executed Ramiro Gonzales by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 2001 murder, the state Department of Criminal Justice said, following unsuccessful [...]

BEIJING, June 21, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese authorities on Friday issued a set of guidelines on imposing criminal punishments on diehard 'Taiwan independence' separatists for conducting or inciting [...]

BEIJING, June 21, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese authorities on Friday issued a set of guidelines on imposing criminal punishments on diehard 'Taiwan independence' separatists for conducting or inciting [...]

(JURIST) - Global executions hit the highest level since 2015, with serious increases mainly in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, Amnesty International said in its 2023 annual report on [...]

When this happens, Zimbabwe will not only draw a line under a long-standing colonial legal import, but also bolster continental and regional trends towards abolition. It will also provide certainty [...]