Everyone thinks human life is valuable ... The gap between death penalty states and non-death penalty states rose considerably from 4 per cent difference in 1990 to 25 per cent in 2010.

The first death sentence historically recorded occurred in 16th Century BC Egypt where the wrongdoer, a member of nobility, was accused of magic, and ordered to take his own life. During this ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice keeps an online log of everyone the state has executed since the 1980s. Each person has multiple numbers associated with them: their age, their prison ...

However, the jury declined to give Smith the death penalty — instead sentencing her to life in prison. Smith ... was disciplined at least five times between 2010 and 2017 for infractions ...

When Derrick Dearman entered Alabama’s execution chamber Thursday evening, he was the fifth man the state put to death this ...

On a dark night in Charlotte 25 years ago, Chancellor Lee Adams’ life began in blood ... which meant he wouldn’t get the ...

KUALA LUMPUR--Malaysia’s parliament on Monday passed sweeping legal reforms to remove the mandatory death ... penalty, trim the number of offences punishable by death, and abolish natural-life ...

Universities may see new regulations around Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education ...

People who identify as gay in Uganda risk life in prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activities. It also includes the death penalty in certain cases. A rights ...

A woman sentenced to death for Vietnam's biggest known fraud has received a life-long prison sentence in another ... been set for her appeal of her death penalty conviction to be heard.

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