A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

“The court emphasized that because the death penalty is the most severe punishment and irreversible in nature, its ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Friday upholding the legality of the death penalty, which is still imposed ...

Taiwan is retaining the death penalty, but the top court has imposed restrictions on its implementation. Taiwan has carried out 35 executions since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court was hearing petitions filed by roughly three dozen prisoners on death row who argued that the ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should only be applied to the most grievous offenses, a ...

With rising cases and low conviction rates, it is imperative to have societal change beyond legal reforms to address the ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...