Sanjay Roy was held guilty under Sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

The West Bengal government has appealed to the Calcutta High Court's Division Bench against the trial court's life ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Prosecutors Tuesday urged a Clark County jury to find a man guilty of a revenge killing for murdering and cutting up and ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

Donald Trump's second inauguration included several celebrities in attendance who weren't announced in advance.

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

As Indonesian prosecutors prepared to appeal the jail sentence of a high-profile businessman which critics said was too ...

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...