There are some things you should know about the death penalty in the 21st century. First, very few advanced nations execute their own citizens anymore. The countries that do include China, Iran, Iraq, ...

Stephan Sterns, charged with the murder of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, filed several motions declaring the death penalty unconstitutional.

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 ...

The Japanese Foreign Ministry says a court in China on Friday handed down the death penalty to a man tried for killing a Japanese boy. The man in his 40s was charged for stabbing the 10-year-old ...

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked ...

We got to stop it. I would have stopped it. I had a deal with him, where he was going to give the maximum penalty, which in China is the death penalty, for drug dealing, and he was all set.

China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, but some rights groups believe the country executes thousands every year. Executions are traditionally carried out by gunshot ...

Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far back as the Ancient Laws of China, the death penalty has been established as a punishment for crimes. In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King ...

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

Still, a small number of netizens expressed skepticism of the death penalty. Weibo user Shumu Yangshenwo in Hainan province posted: "When will it be possible for China to abolish the death penalty ...

At 'pag 'yan ay naibalik natin, ipapanukala kong maibalik ang death penalty bilang kaparusahan sa plunder dahil ... should be "more diplomatic" in easing the tension in the South China Sea. "Hindi ...