Campaigners fear Iranian authorities are intent on launching a new crackdown on opponents even under wartime conditions, ...

In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his ...

Prosecutors allege the crew knowingly transported nearly two tonnes of meth, while lawyers say criminal intent must be assessed individually.

A court on Thursday used Hong Kong's national security law to jail Kwok Yin-sang for eight months, in the first case against ...

A New Hampshire House committee on Feb. 4 recommended the full legislature kill several bills that would reinstate and expand the use of the death penalty in the state. Following lengthy public ...

A New Hampshire House committee recommended the full legislature kill several bills that would reinstate and expand the use of the death penalty in the state on Wednesday. Following lengthy public ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are taking up a range of bills this month that would reinstate the use of the death penalty in the state, almost seven years after it was repealed. The proposals this year, all ...

Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty and federal habeas review of state criminal convictions and sentences. At ...

The state is set to end the year with 19 executions, the most in a single year in the modern era of capital punishment. The entryway to Florida State Prison is seen in August. The prison houses the ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing capital punishment amid ...

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...