The West Bengal government has appealed to the Calcutta High Court for the death penalty for Sanjoy Roy, convicted in the RG ...

Judge rules against death penalty in doctor’s rape-murder case; victim’s family and medical community demand probe into ...

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

Pastor Hezekiah Olujobi, the Chief Executive Officer and Director for Centre for Justice Mercy and Reconciliation (CJMR), a ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Greeshma received the death penalty for premeditated murder of her partner. But Sanjay Roy got life imprisonment for rape and murder.

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The Calcutta High Court granted permission for the West Bengal government to appeal the life sentence given to Sanjay Roy in ...