Thai jail plans death-row webcam
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A prison in the Thai capital plans live internet broadcasts of the final moments of condemned inmates' lives.
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An Islamist extremist who hatched a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier and then publish the footage on the Internet was jailed for life on Monday.
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Relatives wait outside a military base in Pattani province, southern Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 in a bid to see Thai-Muslim demonstrators arrested by security forces after Monday&#39;s riot.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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Chronicles and pronouncements of Thailand's king &#151; the world's longest-serving monarch and a godlike figure to many &#151; will soon be trumpeted online.
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Thai authorities will start on Saturday releasing most of the 1200 Muslim men detained last week after a protest which left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide, the country&#39;s prime minister has said.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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MANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa...
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The execution of three Indonesian Christians on death row for inciting violence against Muslims six years ago is looming, with security forces on alert amid fears of religious strife.
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China, a frequent target of overseas human rights organisations, has promised to improve the treatment of its prisoners, especially those on death row, state press reported Monday.
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A court in Thailand sentences a local man to death for the murder of two Russians in Pattaya in February.
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Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.
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PATTAYA, Thailand  - Thai police are looking into the possibility an unemployed Thai who confessed to murdering two Russian women in the resort city of Pattaya had not acted alone, the national police chief said on Saturday.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a death penalty case being watched around the world, to decide whether the lethal injections used to execute criminals cause unacceptable pain.
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Senior Thai officials were negligent in the deaths of 78 Muslims in army custody in October and will be punished, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Wednesday.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.