Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine ...

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the record for the most death warrants signed in a year since 1976, when the ...

Japan executed Takahiro Shiraishi on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

The justice ministry declined to confirm the hanging but NHK, citing government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old ...

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently ...

The ACLU has released a report finding that the death penalty process systematically excludes Black Americans, women, and religious individuals from the jury box, raising constitutional concerns and ...

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...