Indian citizen Nimisha Priya is facing a death row for a murder in Yemen. What options and legal remedies does she have now to avoid death row?

A lawmaker wants the death penalty back — by firing squad, rather than by lethal injection. House Bill No. 11211, filed by ...

There are no such certainties this year, celestial or otherwise, but that's not stopping Buffalo News reporters from taking a ...

Breaking news.  Government’s decision to expunge the death penalty will see the country moving with international trends and ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty, marking a significant shift for a nation that last carried out an ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

The recent execution of convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran has sparked a conversation about the death penalty in the state of Indiana. In 2025, lawmakers will decide whether to abolish it.

Here is a list of 10 news events selected by the U-B staff that had a significant impact in the Valley in 2024.

President Joe Biden’s commutation of the death sentences of 37 out of 40 men on federal death row in advance of a Trump administration that’s eager to speed up executions was a meaningful act of ...

President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death ...