A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

According to Truong Viet Toan, former Deputy Chief Judge of the Criminal Court under the Hanoi People’s Court, the Ministry ...

LORI HEALEY, one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes political players in Chicago’s modern history, died Saturday ...

George Ryan, the former Republican governor of Illinois, died at the age of 91, leaving behind a legacy as a champion of ...

Cleophus Cooksey was arrested in December 2017 after police responded to a call at his mother’s home and found him with blood on his hands.

The amendments in the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill increase the mandatory minimum sentence for non-capital ...

Does killing a killer kill justice?

BY DAVID BASSEY ANTIA The recent judicial pronouncement sentencing Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer ...

Tennessee has plenty of prison space to incarcerate the “worst of the worst,” saving Tennesseans a whole heap of money in ...

Dead Man Walking: Dan Walker On Death Row comes to 5 on Wednesday, May 7. "They wanted to remind people that they put people ...

Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time anti-death penalty advocate, believes Ohio is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment due to growing support for repeal and the state's own capital punishment ...

“It is not punishment to be removed from this country,” DeSantis said in Miramar at an event spotlighting Operation Tidal ...