IN Nazi-occupied Europe the act of taking a photograph was to risk life itself. Photography and Resistance: Securing the ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial ...

A growing legal movement has turned to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to take on ...

As the famous saying has it, ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going’ and that seems to have been what happened in Damascus just over a week ago. By the by (and never say this column doesn’t ...

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking a federal judge to block the upcoming execution.

The Tennessee Department of Correction on Thursday released a redacted version of the new lethal injection protocol it created after a multi-year review of its execution process. The 44-page ...

Mazen Kneneh was accused of writing malicious reports that led many young men to be imprisoned and tortured An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new ...

After his execution, the executioner dropped Charles’ head in front of the platform, where members of the crowd dipped handkerchiefs in his blood and cut locks of his hair. Charles’ body was ...

But this approach raises serious constitutional and legal questions. The code of criminal procedure bans the execution of a person in a state of “non compos mentis” (not of sound mind), which ...

The total is the highest recorded in nine years and marks a 6% increase from 2023, when 853 people were executed. Most of the executions were for drug-related offences, but dissidents and people ...