When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

In less than a week, China conducted a series of executions on a scale rarely seen in recent decades. In all, 16 core members of mafia-like crime syndicates were put to death for a range of crimes, ...

North Korea is executing schoolchildren for watching South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop, including Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game,” according to Amnesty International. Escapees told the ...

China has executed four people for causing the deaths of six people and running Myanmar-based scam and gambling operations worth more than $4bn, authorities said. In November, five people, including ...

China has executed 11 people linked to scam syndicates operating out of Myanmar’s border regions, as a warning to criminal gangs running a multibillion-dollar global fraud industry. Chinese State ...

People in North Korea, including schoolchildren, are being executed for watching Squid Game and other foreign media, according to new testimony. Citizens also face being killed for listening to K-pop, ...

The Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China announced a group execution Thursday that brought a landmark cross-border crime case to a close. The eleven ringleaders from the northern ...

In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 47 people were put to death in 11 states, the highest annual ...

Charles Victor Thompson, 55, died by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday – marking the first US execution of the year. Thompson was given the death penalty for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Lea Uradu, J.D., is a Maryland state ...

North Korean teenagers are being executed for consuming South Korean media, including Squid Game and K-pop, Amnesty International have said. The Hermit Kingdom, which is currently under the rule of ...