At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

A federal appeals court has denied a request from the Boston Marathon bomber's lawyers.They wanted Judge George O'Toole to recuse himself from the review of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence because ...

News18, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina challenged the country’s Interim Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus to take charges against her to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an ‘im ...

In her first public interview since being sentenced to death in absentia, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ...

A federal court on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence. The U.S.

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

On the occasion of World Day Against the Death Penalty, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) marked October 10 by expressing hope for a reform of the Penal Code that could lead to a legal ...