The Bureau of Corrections said it would tap Mary Jane Veloso to teach the Indonesian art of batik-weaving to her fellow PDL at the Correctional Institution for Women.

“I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Philippine cinema’s great icons,” President Marcos said in a statement on Monday, a few days after Romero’s death on Saturday. President Marcos ...

The death of Gloria Romero left an immeasurable gap in the Philippine entertainment industry, with many celebrities and colleagues mourning the loss of the “Queen of Philippine cinema” who was ...

Philippines – Tributes poured in following news of the death of statesman and human rights stalwart Edcel Lagman at the age of 82 on Thursday, January 30. One of the first lawmakers who served ...

Barely had the Christmas festivities concluded when the Philippines was thrust back into the throes of a bitter political rivalry. As Filipinos resumed their daily routines on January 3 ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...

The question "What would your death row meal be?" serves as a popular topic for dinner party small talk, and even some podcasts. But it's grounded in a grim tradition. In countries which still ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...