PRELIMINARY TESTS SHOW AVATARS CAN HELP SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS CONTROL THREATENING VOICES

But if further trials prove successful, experts said, avatar therapy could radically change treatment approaches for millions of psychosis sufferers across the world... READ MORE›

RADICAL NEW APPROACH TO SCHIZOPHRENIA TREATMENT BEGINS TRIAL

Exclusive as evidence emerges that schizophrenia could be an immune system disease, two-year trial will use antibody drug currently used for MS... READ MORE›

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PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR BLASPHEMY MAKES LAST APPEAL

Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness of her trial and has called for her release... READ MORE›

JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS

Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... READ MORE›

WHO ARE THE FOUR AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD IN IRAN?

But the agreement makes no mention of Americans who have been held in Iran for years... READ MORE›

UKS MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO BE FOUND IN JAIL THAN HOSPITAL

In a paper last year he said that failing to effectively screen prisoners mental health inevitably led to tragedy... READ MORE›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›

JESSICA WONGSO GETS 20 YEARS FOR CYANIDE MURDER

An Australian resident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering her friend with a cyanide laced coffee... READ MORE›

INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›

GERMANS 'WORKING IN SPECIALIST TORTURE SQUAD FOR ISLAMIC STATE'

During his time in Syria he witnessed several torture sessions and executions, including the crucifixion of a former Isil commander, he told interrogators... READ MORE›

Execution Date Set for 'Delusional' Murderer Scott Panetti in Texas... READ MORE›

NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013

If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›

INDONESIA URGED NOT TO EXECUTE BRAZILIAN RODRIGO GULARTE, WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED AS MENTALLY ILL

Photograph Provided by family Detained at Nusa Kambangan, the maximum-security prison island off Java, Gularte is reportedly too scared to leave... READ MORE›

CROCODILES AND TIGERS TO GUARD PRISONERS

In November 2015, Indonesia bowed to international pressure and put a temporary halt on executing death row prisoners, so alternatives were sought by the authorities... READ MORE›

'BLACK WIDOW' INVESTIGATED AFTER DEATHS OF SEVEN PARTNERS

In April 2012, another black widow killer, 39-year-old Kanae Kijima, was given the death penalty for the murders of three men she met through Internet dating sites... READ MORE›

ARKANSAS SEEKS WITNESSES FOR EIGHT UPCOMING EXECUTIONS

A state law requires that at least six people witness an execution to ensure that the state's death penalty laws are properly followed... READ MORE›

DEATH, CHEMICAL CASTRATION FOR CHILD SEX OFFENDERS

Sexual violence against children, as I have said, is an extraordinary crime, President Joko Widodo told journalists, according to a statement... READ MORE›

34 INMATES ESCAPE CROWDED JAIL IN HAITI WITH SUSPECTED HELP OF PRISON GUARDS

Photograph Dieu Nalio Chery AP Saint-Marc is a port city about 60 miles 95km north of Port-au-Prince and is the largest city between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien... READ MORE›

KALAMAZOO SHOOTINGS: UBER DRIVER BLAMES APP

Mr Dalton is charged with shooting eight people, killing six of them during a five-hour period... READ MORE›

FARKHUNDA MURDER: AFGHAN COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES

On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE›

BOTCHED OKLAHOMA LETHAL INJECTION EXECUTION OF CLAYTON LOCKETT DESCRIBED AS A BLOODY MESS

It was a bloody mess, said Anita Trammell, the warden of the Oklahoma state prison where the execution took place on 29 April at 6... READ MORE›

OSCAR PISTORIUS TO REMAIN IN JAIL AS PAROLE DECISION DELAYED

They are pursuing a murder conviction and a longer sentence, arguing that Pistorius deliberately killed Steenkamp after an argument... READ MORE›

VIETNAM SUSPENDS JAIL GUARDS OVER DEATH-ROW PREGNANCY

Investigators say Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, inseminated herself with the help of a male inmate, apparently to escape the death penalty, state media reported... READ MORE›

A PARAPLEGIC MAN IN PAKISTAN COULD BE HANGED IN HIS OWN WHEELCHAIR

According to Justice Project Pakistan, a group that opposes capital punishment, regulations for carrying out an execution assume a prisoner can walk up onto a scaffolding... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA UNVEILS LETHAL INJECTION PLAN AFTER 10-YEAR EXECUTION DELAY

The latter two have never been used in the U.S. as execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment... READ MORE›

TEENAGE GIRL JAILED FOR MURDERING MOTHER 'AFTER WATCHING ISIS BEHEADING VIDEOS ONLINE'

Borch was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, the first of which will be in a young offender's institution and the following eight in jail... READ MORE›

DEATH SENTENCES SURGE EVEN AS MORE COUNTRIES DROP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›

INDONESIA EXECUTES FOUR CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS

The Indonesian government has carried out four of the planned executions of 14 people found guilty of drug crimes, Al Jazeera has learned... READ MORE›

THE POLITICAL PROTESTERS EXECUTED IN SAUDI ARABIA - AND THOSE STILL ON DEATH ROW

At his subsequent trial, he was sentenced to death by beheading and is being held in solitary confinement at Riyadh's Al-Hayir prison awaiting execution... READ MORE›

INDONESIA PLANS CROCODILE-GUARDED PRISON ISLAND FOR DRUG CONVICTS

Anti-drugs agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi confirmed authorities were mulling the plan to build 'a special prison for death row convicts'... READ MORE›

INMATES IN SYRIA'S HAMA PRISON CAPTURE REGIME OFFICIALS

International and Syrian human rights organisations have decried conditions inside Syrian prisons before and during the war... READ MORE›

HARRY ROBERTS: THE MAN BEHIND THE 1966 POLICE MURDERS

Harry Roberts the man behind the 1966 police murders... READ MORE›