Cory B. Alvarez was sentenced in Plymouth Superior Court, after a judge denied a request from his lawyer to stay the sentence ...

Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year.

Galvanised by the alleged gang-rape of a young woman who died of her injuries earlier this week, political parties representing India's downtrodden Dalit community held protests in several cities on ...