Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...

From January to June, Saudi Arabia has already executed nearly 200 people, with the number expected to break last year’s ...

A group of lawyers who defend people facing capital punishment has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take extraordinary ...

Support for the return of capital punishment in murder convictions was remarkably stable in 2020 (51 per cent), 2021 (50 per cent) and 2022 (51 per cent).

Amnesty noted that 37 people were executed for drug-related crimes in June alone, including 34 foreigners from countries such ...

The row over remarks calling for Achuthanandan’s 'capital punishment' reveals deep factional divides within the CPM, ...

Capital punishment, say proponents, serves social catharsis. But administering it behind prison walls indicates a healthy squeamishness that should herald abolition. You can save this article by ...

Nigeria’s death row has hit 3,688, but executions are stalled as governors refuse to sign warrants, sparking legal and human ...

Rethinking the death penalty dilemma in Nigeria By Judiciary Reporters (NAN) With hundreds of inmates languishing on death ...

A sessions court in Paschim Medinipur district on July 25, 2023, ordered death penalty for masons Bikash Murmu and Chhotu Munda, while sentencing labourer Tapati Patra to life term after finding them ...

Dubai: A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a husband and wife to death by hanging for the fatal beating of their domestic ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...