Japan's government said Friday it will release up to 210,000 tons of rice from its stockpile in an effort to stabilize the ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life ...

General, the country’s chief prosecutor, has reversed his earlier decision to discharge three key suspects in the Lasantha ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

TOKYO, Feb 7, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Japan's retrial system will be scrutinised by legal experts for possible revision, officials ...

Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of JFK, is trolling political enemies in unhinged rants on social media to back ...

Indonesian authorities are set to return an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country, ...

Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was resentenced to detention at His Majesty's Pleasure over the horrific murders on Merseyside last summer.

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamada, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 ...