More than 140 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
The trials to prosecute those responsible for upholding and promoting a fascist regime must meet international standards of transparency.
The food ministry is going to be tougher on hoarding as it proposes capital punishment or life imprisonment against the offenders.
Speedy Trial tribunal-1 has awarded death penalty to four people for killing one Monir Hossain and cutting the dead body into seven pieces in 2013.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday found four Moulvibazar men guilty of committing genocide during the Liberation War and handed down death penalties to all of them.
A Narayanganj court today sentences three persons to death for killing a garment worker after rape.
The government has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Oishee Rahman in the much-talked-about sensational case filed over killing her parents in 2013.
A court here yesterday sentenced 12 people to death for murdering a college student Robiul Islam Rajan, 24, over a land dispute in
Convicted war criminal Mir Quasem Ali files a petition with the Supreme Court seeking two-month deferment on his review hearing against the judgement that upheld his death penalty.
The government has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Oishee Rahman in the much-talked-about sensational case filed over killing her parents in 2013.
A court here yesterday sentenced 12 people to death for murdering a college student Robiul Islam Rajan, 24, over a land dispute in
Convicted war criminal Mir Quasem Ali files a petition with the Supreme Court seeking two-month deferment on his review hearing against the judgement that upheld his death penalty.
Incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte yesterday hit out at "stupid" human rights campaigners, as he defended his imminent war on crime and emphasised the death penalty was for retribution.
Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte says he will seek to return the death penalty, in his first comments to reporters since last week's election.
A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to the government requesting it to abolish the provisions of death penalty from all laws of the country within 24 hours.
Security in and around the Dhaka Central Jail, where death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami has been kept, was strengthened this afternoon.
Hours after Supreme Court released its full verdict dismissing condemned war criminal Nizami’s review plea, authorities of Dhaka jail, where he had been kept, reads out the verdict to him.
The death sentence of condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami will be executed after maintaining all legal procedure, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.
A special tribunal in Dhaka hands death penalty to four Razakars of Kishoreganj convicted of committing war crimes in 1971. One has been handed jail until death.
