Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over reports of more than 170 individuals being transferred to Angenga ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the planned execution of 170 ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

Twenty-six African countries have abolished the death penalty in law. The most recent countries to do so include Ghana, the Central African Republic and Zambia. Another 14 within the African Union ...

The International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which presented a report to the U.N. human rights council in March 2024 found ...

President Biden pardoned the death sentences of 37 people on death row in federal prisons. These folks will remain in prison without chance of parole. He has been both praised and pilloried for his ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have ...

Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

On 5 January 2025, DRC’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba announced that more than 170 people, allegedly linked to criminal ...

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty ...