When the parents of the three children 17 year old Pooja (name changed) her 9 year old sister and 4 year old brother Rahul (name changed) slept peacefully little did...

A month ago, the Iranian parliament voted in favour of a draft bill, entitled “Islamic Penal Code”, which would codify the death penalty for any male Iranian who...

Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death...

According to El Norte, after months of intense review,the World Court and Congress’ Howard Berman and Zoe Lofgren submitted their resolution. Close sources of the...

The Supreme Court of United States declared on Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the ‘years of long anguish’ for...

The US Supreme Court has struck down a law that would have allowed the execution of someone convicted of raping a child.

In a move that could bring some reprieve to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan government on Saturday announced plans to commute the death sentences of...

Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular...

New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people...

# The US Supreme Court upheld the three-drug lethal injection method clearing the way for an unofficial moratorium on executions to be lifted. # In the three-drug...

# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. # The...

UN human rights committee holds a historic vote today on a global moratorium over a possible ban on death penalty. Yes # Capital punishment is a cruel man made law that...

Capital punishment should only be given to an extremely small number of serious offenders. People, it’s about China. Some sigh of relief from the stringent law in...

On Thursday, the Bench of Justices B N Agrawal and P P Naolekar in Supreme Court imposed death penalty on the accused couple from Hissar, Sonia and Sanjiv for mass...

It is not easy for those children who survive sexual assaults or are molested. As they grow, they develop various coping mechanisms. Some may become sexually active...

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam seems to be the only one who can save Mohammad Afzal Guru from the hanging rope now. On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed the remedial...

A former United States of America soldier was indicted by a federal grand jury in Louisville (US) on November 02 on charges that include the rape of an Iraqi girl and...

China is known as the country, which carries out more court-ordered death penalty than any other country. Now, Chinese government has enacted a new kind of legislation...

To hang or not to hang debate is still on in the political and intellectual sphere in India. The President of India has got and sent the clemency demand to the Home...

Indian Media has almost divided the opinion of Indian people on the issue of death penalty award to Mohd Afzal in the connection with attack on Parliament case, 2001....