On Tuesday, prosecutors in Catawba County announced that they plan to seek the death penalty in a case stemming from road ...

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

A recent rash of executions and high profile death penalty cases with credible claims of innocence show just how hard it is ...

After a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis, 29 children in Nigeria are facing the death penalty. Four ...

Richard Moore, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Friday in South Carolina for the fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk in 1999, has one final chance to have his life spared.

The state lawmaker talked to LGBTQ Nation about North Carolina's rightwing extremists, how her identity affects her work, and reproductive rights.

The prominence of Iranian women and girls in the ongoing struggle for human rights has been met with fierce crackdowns by the ...

Tarr: “That’s correct.” Woelfel: “Why in the world would we have the death penalty referred to in this? Do you consider the death penalty a pro-life issue?” Tarr: “Well, personally ...

Higher than China. Higher than the socialist nations of Europe. The real-world impact of death taxes this high is that older people will avoid the death tax by lavishly spending down the family ...

we'll start with the old questions that often come up in death penalty cases that thrust Texas into the national spotlight. If there are legitimate concerns about a possibly innocent person being ...

A Calgary steel fabrication company was hit with $200,000 in penalties after a workplace death. Glenmore Fabricators Limited pleaded guilty to one count under the Occupational Health and Safety ...