The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

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

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

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

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

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...

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

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...