The U.S. is among one of the leading countries in executions. Gallup polling shows that as of last year, 53% of Americans ...

Earlier this month, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, reiterated its call for the abolition of the death sentence. The ...

The prominence of Iranian women and girls in the ongoing struggle for human rights has been met with fierce crackdowns by the ...

CBP data found the Biden-Harris administration has been catching fewer international criminal gang members in 2024 than the Trump administration did.

July 11 marked the 30th anniversary of the coming into force of a United Nations treaty to abolish the death penalty. During the three decades since the Second Optional Protocol to the ...

On Tuesday, prosecutors in Catawba County announced that they plan to seek the death penalty in a case stemming from road ...

This is, however, an appeal for a more selective use of this ultimate, permanent penalty. This is an appeal that all Texans ...

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the release of 29 children facing the death penalty after being arraigned for ...

Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were ... Nigeria remains one of the world’s poorest countries. Chronic corruption means the lifestyle of its public ...

A Cole County judge heard arguments Monday over why a man accused of first-degree murder in the death of two people at a ...