Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at overthrowing the government, parliament said on Wednesday, sparing the life of ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case.

The federal government can now pursue the death penalty against the Boulder attack suspect following the death of a victim.

A History of the Death Penalty from Laura E. Randa's Society's "Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty." ...

Fox News host Charlie Hurt has suggested the White House should invoke the “death penalty” in their hunt for the inside source that leaked intelligence about the Iran strikes to the media. Talking on ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer, Aníbal Rivas Reed, has been sentenced to 50 years for treason in what his family calls an arbitrary trial.

Russian law enforcement authorities pressed treason charges against former independent media manager Pavel Andreyev following ...

A Pennsylvania man is sentenced to life without parole after a judge finds him guilty of murder in his father's killing.

Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu told a court on Monday that he had been denied his basic legal rights and that he would defend himself against a treason charge that carries the death penalty.