As Vietnam is gearing up for its fourth dialogue with the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) in Geneva, ...

From Indian killer brides to Malaysia’s first ethnic Chinese lieutenant general, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent ...

While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...

The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Federal officials have charged four people from California with what they call the largest COVID-19 tax credit fraud scheme ever identified in the United States, amounting to more than $90 million in ...

Catholics in Vietnam have welcomed the lifting of the death penalty for eight crimes in the communist-ruled nation, saying emphasis must be placed on protecting life and aiding the reintegration of ...

In a significant shift that is garnering attention both domestically and internationally, the Vietnamese government has abolished the death penalty ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.