Israel's Parliament has approved a law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. This measure, a victory...

The Calcutta High Court commuted a man's death sentence to life imprisonment for murdering his maternal uncle during a dacoity. Justice Bha...

In a shocking development in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, Sonam Raghuvanshi's brother, Govind, has publicly accused his sister of orch...

Nityanand Rai responded to Mamata Banerjee's remarks about the Left and BJP's alleged role in West Bengal unrest. Banerjee faced criticism ...

Two youths arrested for justifying Neha Hiremath's murder by Fayaz Khondunaik. Karnataka CM accused BJP of politicizing the murder. Accused...

In a statement, the Public Prosecution said it oversaw the "implementation of the death sentence in Kuwait's Central Prison" against five p...

The BJP on Wednesday demanded death penalty for the Shahbad Dairy murder accused and alleged that the killing of the minor girl in northwes...

Asha Devi said the struggle would continue till the time the rapists are hanged and hoped that March 20 to be the final date of hanging. "W...

The share of death sentences for sexual crimes is on the rise, driven by several state-level sentencing decisions.

The horrific case shook the nation.

Forty five year old Punjabi Mahato , a resident of the same village where Trilochan used to live , has been picked up by a special team , s...

"Today we are in a danger of seeing that the element of retribution being usurped by communalisation of public perceptions."

The hanging of Yakub Memon today is the first execution of death sentence in Maharashtra after Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was sent to ...

Amnesty International estimates that Pakistan has more than 8,000 prisoners on death row, most of whom have exhausted their appeals.

The death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the December 16 rape has, once again, brought us into the middle of a national debate.

BJP today demanded that there should be no provision for convicts, sentenced to death in rape-cum-murder cases, to file a mercy petition.

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said that he supported continuing the death penalty, hours after the country executed three convicted ...