The last executions in the United Kingdom took place in 1964, and capital punishment for murder was then formally abolished ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

The Supreme Court has upheld the decision to allow a two-judge bench to hear appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, ...

Please join us on Saturday, May 10 at 12:30pm-2:30pm EDT for the fourth webinar in this monthly series on the abolition of ...

According to Truong Viet Toan, former Deputy Chief Judge of the Criminal Court under the Hanoi People’s Court, the Ministry ...

The amendments in the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill increase the mandatory minimum sentence for non-capital ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

BY DAVID BASSEY ANTIA The recent judicial pronouncement sentencing Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer ...

Does killing a killer kill justice?

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate 60 years since the last person was ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the argument that a three-judge and not a two-judge bench should hear appeals of convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case as the issue was of capital ...

Cleophus Cooksey was arrested in December 2017 after police responded to a call at his mother’s home and found him with blood on his hands.