Dylann Roof wanted to start a race war, but I feel like there is already such a war going on, and it plays out in our ...

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

Zimbabwe, whose president once faced the death penalty himself, abolished capital punishment after its senate approved a bill in December last year. Before the bill was approved, ...

The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

The Delaware House of Representatives passed the first leg of a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty in the ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totalling $27 billion will no longer face execution, her lawyer ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...