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

A man dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’ has been hanged for murdering and dismembering nine people. Takahiro Shiraishi was executed ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

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The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

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

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

The defense attorneys did their job of lying, denying and demanding proof, and then, when that proof was presented, they challenged the proof. When every effort failed, the defense outmaneuvered the ...

Senator Ronald Bato Dela Rosa has refiled the measure that seeks to reinstate the capital punishment of death through lethal injection for those who will ...

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