The Amnesty International report indicates that 1,518 people were executed in 2024 in 15 countries, according to the cases they have been able to document. Although the record is held by China, whose ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty ...

He executed more people in a single term than any president since the 1890s. Now, he wants Mangione on death row.

Whatever arguments are used, the journey toward worldwide rejection of capital punishment will not be concluded quickly. But ...

In Kansas, Judge Bill Klapper concluded that “The scientific community has found no reliable evidence of the death penalty ...

[3] Britain influenced the colonies more than any other country and has a long history of punishment by death. About 450 BC, the death penalty was often enforced by throwing the condemned into a ...

Now, in 2017, the death penalty is illegal in 105 countries. A further 36 countries have either repealed the death penalty for ‘ordinary crimes’ such as murder, or effectively stopped using the death ...

Throughout history, punishments for violators, dissenters, and lawbreakers have taken many forms. With the advancement of ...

Columnist Namrata Pradeep argues that if Luigi Mangione receives the death penalty, we can kiss goodbye our right to a fair ...

Yet even the statistics on capital punishment imply unanswered questions: Alabama has both the death penalty and the country’s highest murder rate (10.2 per 100,000 people), while Vermont also ...