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

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For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

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

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will host a press conference regarding a new bill dealing with the state’s death penalty. Marshall, who will be joined by Rep. Matt Simpson and Sen. April ...

Capital punishment violates one of the most fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law—that states must recognize the right to life.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...