No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences ...

Republicans in the Ohio Senate approved a sweeping higher education overhaul − hours after hundreds of students and faculty ...

Two memos I have found in the Diplomatic Archives in Tokyo (file 2015-1638) reveal that on Jan. 11, 1968, Japan’s Immigration ...

NFL coach Sean Payton says he can't think of a major American sporting venue that has aged as well as the nearly 50-year-old ...

These groups operate with near impunity within the borders of countries like Mexico. In contrast, despite its vast resources and capabilities, the US upholds international norms that respect state ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing an across-the-board 10% tariff on all Chinese imports went into effect on Feb. 4. The comprehensive import tax comes on top of tariffs already in ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states that still carry out capital punishment have a sufficient supply of drugs ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned execution of an individual for committing a specific crime. Since 1976, more than 85 nations have abolished the death penalty ...

He shared his thoughts about the death penalty in a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun. Hiraoka: The death penalty is, needless to say, about taking human lives. The former justice minister ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.