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

Capital punishment abolished for 8 offenses in Vietnam’s revised Penal Code Life sentences replace capital punishment under new criminal law effective July 1. Vietnam has officially removed the death ...

The man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and ...

More than 70% of countries across the world have abolished capital punishment (Image credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / Alamy / Shutterstock / Getty Images) By Richard Windsor, The Week UK ...

Minnesota abolished capital punishment in 1911, and the state's last execution was a botched hanging in 1906. But federal prosecutors announced charges against Vance Boelter on Monday that can ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed on Friday, ...

The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14, and wounding a state ...

Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) applauds Malaysia for the elimination of the mandatory death penalty ...

Today in History for July 15: In 1099, the Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious zeal, to ...