Taiwan’s top court on September 20, 2024 ruled that the death penalty was constitutional with greater protections, Human ...

Taiwan's top court on September 20, 2024, ruled that the death penalty was constitutional with greater protections, Human ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing minors to life in prison without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Marcia Coyle of the ...

Review the timeline for the events surrounding the 2006 death of Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs and the trial and ...

Creech was later found guilty of the June 1974 strangling death of V. Grant Robinson, 50, in Sacramento, California, and the ...

A brutal cultural practice that sees mothers batter their own daughters’ breasts to stop them developing is taking place in Britain, campaigners say. The barbaric ritual of “breast-ironing ...

They argue that death by hanging is a painful and degrading form of capital punishment and that it violates Japan’s Constitution, which prohibits cruel forms of punishment. The Criminal Law sets ...

Attorneys for Michael Addison argued that the death sentence is a violation of due process and the New Hampshire Bill of ...

A Tehran court sentenced two individuals to finger amputation on Wednesday as punishment for theft, sparking international ...

But such a punishment would leave inmates with nothing to live for. That would be another form of cruel punishment. I think there should be a form of punishment where parole is considered on a ...

A Conservative MP in Sussex has said the decision to reduce the winter fuel allowance ‘inflicts a cruel punishment on our ...