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

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

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

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson could be dead by the time his appeal is heard. And what Paxton wants to do ...

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 ...

Monojit Mishra took to Facebook in August last year following the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College in ...

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.

A death row inmate convicted of multiple sexual assaults and murders has died in prison at the age of 86, nearly two decades ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...

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