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The Uttarakhand High Court has appointed an amicus curiae to assist it in reviewing capital punishment awarded to a murder convict by a Haridwar court. A division bench of the high court comprising ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border Patrol Agent David Maland's fatal shooting.

The main accused in the Kasba gangrape case Monojit Mishra wanted capital punishment for the culprits of the RG Kar rape case ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

The court awarded the death penalty to Lala based on the evidence and arguments put forward by the prosecution and held that ...