Death Penalty

Lawmakers vote to repeal the death penalty more than 20 years after the country’s last execution.

Death sentences in the small Gulf nation have risen more than 600 percent in the past decade, new report finds.

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, pledged during his campaign to support an end the death penalty.

Raisi says he is ‘proud’ of his work as a former prosecutor and will continue to ‘defend human rights’ as president.

Inmates must have choice of death by firing squad, court rules, as US states seek alternatives to lethal injection.

After suspending executions due to a botched lethal injection in 2014, Arizona now has 115 inmates awaiting execution.

At the end of his tenure, Trump presided over the deaths of 13 prisoners. What will happen to the 2,500 on death row?

Amnesty’s annual review shows decrease in number of global executions in 2020 but 18 countries continued the practice.

Advocates hope the move will lead to an end to capital punishment elsewhere in the south, where most executions occur.

Justices will hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Twenty-one industry titans from around the world signed a declaration demanding an end to capital punishment.

Death Penalty Information Center adds 11 exonerations, finds consistent misconduct and ‘racial bias’ in cases.

Ruling applies to those with serious mental health problems preventing them from understanding nature of punishment.

A disproportionate number of Black people have been sentenced to death and are on death row, the groups say.