Under SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989 giving false evidence leading to the execution of an innocent member belonging to the SC or ST would attract the death penalty.

Wes Streeting has told Israel that it needs to get its “own house in order”, following criticism from its embassy in the UK ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has termed "unacceptable" a call by an Iranian newspaper for the death penalty to be ...

Prior to the Kolkata rape case, Monojit Mishra was chargesheeted in numerous incidents before, comprising harassing women, ...

Lamine Yamal is just one full season into professional top-flight football, yet, has already done enough to be regarded as ...

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

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

More than 100 new laws will take effect on Tuesday. The laws will address several highly debated topics in the state ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

The alleged gunman in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings appeared in federal court Friday, June 27. Vance Boelter is accused of ...

Critics say there’s no evidence that castration prevents future sex offenses. Yet several states are weighing such measures.