Article 21 of the Constitution of India declares that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except ...

Recent judicial rulings in India have reignited debates about the fairness and consistency of capital punishment.

Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on ...

By Zanita Careem Sri Lanka has become an unsafe environment for women and children said Dr. Tushara Wickramanayake, fondly ...

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Though the Southport killer will likely die behind bars, critics have claimed the punishment is not severe enough ...

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Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana received the second-longest life sentence in English history and the government does not ever want to see him released, Downing Street has said. Sir Keir ...

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted ...

A popular police officer secretly accessed confidential logs almost 30 times after 'wanting to know more' when his relative ...

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts put the full force of his rushing prowess – and his offensive line's sturdiness – ...

Most of us had to call a halt to the amount of detail of the frenzied murders of the three Southport girls killed last July ...