Death Penalty

Iran executions ‘state sanctioned killing’: UN rights chief
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the ‘weaponisation’ of the death penalty to squash dissent.
Published On 10 Jan 2023
Missouri carries out first US execution of a transgender person
Amber McLaughlin, convicted of murder, was executed by lethal injection after being denied clemency.
Published On 4 Jan 2023
Missouri set for first execution of transgender person in the US
Amber McLaughlin faces death by lethal injection on Tuesday, after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2006.
Published On 2 Jan 2023
US ‘botched’ executions reach all-time high, report finds
Seven of 20 attempted executions in 2022 were ‘visibly problematic’, research group says, but practice is in decline.
Published On 16 Dec 2022

The individuals allegedly received payment in cryptocurrencies to buy weapons and engage in kidnappings.

New law follows a series of late-stage applications filed by prisoners after exhausting the appeal and clemency process.

Two men sentenced to death for 2015 killing of blogger critical of hardline religiosity escape from crowded Dhaka court.

Four Kuwaitis, a Pakistani, a Syrian and an Ethiopian were hanged, despite condemnation from Amnesty International.

Bus carrying nine Chinese engineers and four Pakistanis working on a hydropower project was attacked in July 2021.

Minister Yasuhiro Hanashi submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday.

In the US, at least five percent of the prison population is wrongly convicted.

‘We can never entrust our governments with the right to think they have the wisdom to be able to decide who should die.’

October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty. Here are three graphics on capital punishment around the world.

Alabama wanted to kill a man by making him breathe nitrogen, based on a film. Except officials didn’t know how to.

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