Japan hanged three convicted murderers in the country's first executions in more than three months, but in
“These are weeks of big diplomatic activity to convince a majority of countries to vote YES,” Emma Bonino, Minister for Community Politics, said in Madrid.
A jury in the southern US state of Tennessee acquitted a man who spent more than 15 ye
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of a convicted murderer in Alabama
a gay Iranian youth was sentenced to death for the crime of "lavat" (literally, sodomy), for having sex at 1
the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) learned that
By an 8-4 vote, the New Jersey Senate Budget Committee voted to advance a bill to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole.
Iraq's prime minister wants the American military to hand over "Chemical Ali" and two other convicted
the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, admitted an appeal filed by
One of Egypt's prominent Muslim leaders has rejected calls to abolish the death penalty, saying it is an
the South Korean law that automatically gives the death penalty to any soldier
a court in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An
Every Tuesday hunger strike against executions