On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Under SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989 giving false evidence leading to the execution of an innocent member belonging to the SC or ST would attract the death penalty.

Prior to the Kolkata rape case, Monojit Mishra was chargesheeted in numerous incidents before, comprising harassing women, ...

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

A death row inmate convicted of multiple sexual assaults and murders has died in prison at the age of 86, nearly two decades ...

Takahiro Shiraishi admitted killing and butchering his young victims, all but one of whom were women between 15 and 26. None ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

Prime accused Monojit Mishra had written “Want death sentence for the rapist...” on social media following RG Kar rape and ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer ...

Fox released Prison Break in August 2005. It's about a structural engineer who deliberately lands in state prison to break ...