The death penalty was banned in the UK under all circumstances in 1998. Since then, the debate about capital punishment has ...

But capital punishment, the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for a crime, raises serious universal human rights issues that transcend national borders.

While the international trend is toward the abolition of capital punishment, Japan is one of the few advanced nations to maintain the death penalty. The Cabinet Office of Japan’s most recent ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

Capital punishment is the most harmful punishment available, so the state should only use it if no less harmful punishment is suitable; Other punishments will always enable the state to fulfil its ...

Miami-Dade Commissioner Marleine Bastien responds to a child's assault at Gwen Cherry Park, promising community safety ...

Public support for capital punishment has slid over the last 30 years, remaining a majority opinion but barely so. Those who oppose death as a punishment often have kind, even noble intentions.

“What is clear is that capital punishment on the statute books and the level of enforcement do impact how a would-be criminal decides whether to commit an offence that carries the death penalty.

Capital punishment was halted in the U.S. in 1972 but reinstated in 1976, and since then, nearly 1,600 people have been executed. To whose gain?

Yemeni law allows for a person to be executed in four ways - shooting, hanging, stoning and beheading. However, only one of ...