[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

China remained the world’s leading executioner, but the true extent of the use of the death penalty in this country remains unknown as this data remains classified as a state secret. The global figure ...

Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to pleas from Pope Francis and other death penalty opponents. Three infamous ...

Capital punishment is the death penalty. It is illegal in the UK. It was abolished for the crime of murder in 1965. It was then abolished for all crimes in 1998. In 2004 the UK agreed not to ...

The suspected arsonist behind the deadly Kyoto Animation attack has been sentenced to a death penalty. The anime studio has produced numerous beloved projects.

Over the past four years, Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not ...

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 ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is unveiling a new set of bills that could have child sexual predators facing the death penalty. "If you are raping someone, if you're molesting someone ...

Pakistan’s use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the ... “The report not only presents a statistical overview of death row prisoners but also delves into the underlying issues ...

The suspected arsonist behind the deadly Kyoto Animation attack has been sentenced to a death penalty. The anime studio has produced numerous beloved projects.