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

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state ...

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

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 ...

Invasive fish that can survive out of water found in Canada, alarming scientists Over 400 flights canceled into and out of ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...