The number of executions is rising globally, despite many countries abolishing the use of capital punishment ... How do countries around the world carry out the death penalty?

There was a sharp rise in the number of known executions carried out around the world in 2023 ... Sign up In the past half-century capital punishment has increasingly been viewed as a human ...

The Lahore-based NGO issued the third edition of its annual report called Death Penalty in Pakistan: Data Mapping Capital Punishment, commemorating the 22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty.

This was a key attitude behind capital ... or led around the town wearing a Scold's Bridle – a heavy iron cage for the head with a tongue iron in the mouth. The different punishment for women ...

Only five death sentences have been overturned on retrial since World War II ... to address human rights concerns over its ...

Judges will retain discretion to impose capital punishment in exceptional cases. But for the most serious crimes, the courts will now hand down life imprisonment sentences of up to 40 years ...