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Bryan Kohberger is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders case. He claims his attorneys pressured him into the de...

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A report by Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi reveals a concerning rise in death row inmates in India, reaching a two-decade hi...

Out of the 109 death punishments awarded by sessions courts last year, the high courts commuted 53 cases and acquitted 35 persons.

The court, however, made it clear that the apex court would not decide as to what should be the mode of executing a condemned prisoner in I...

"Everybody is aware of the cracks in the criminal justice system but we rarely get to hear concrete cases and of individuals who suffer."

The report also states that more than 80% of the death row inmates are subjected to 'inhuman, degrading and extreme forms of physical and m...

The ‘Death Penalty India Report’, released in Delhi on Friday, does not allege direct discrimination against prisoners from such background.

Death row prisoners are not allowed to interact with the general prison population. All that they are left to do is talk to other people in...

The missing files are not only a serious lapse on part of prison authorities but has also hampered an ongoing attempt to study all death ro...

More than 8,000 prisoners are on death row in Pakistan and about 160 convicts have been executed since the Nawaz Sharif government lifted m...

Pakistan lifted moratorium on the death penalty after Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar and killed 136 students.

Three prisoners were executed in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail while another was hanged to death in Mianwali jail.

"The verdict places a strong emphasis on the human rights of all persons, and should steer the country towards completely doing away with t...

Following the incident, both men and some other death row prisoners went on hunger strike for a day.