On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

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

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

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

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

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

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine ...

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