Hope could very well be the defining force behind the drive to abolish capital punishment: hope for redemption, hope for ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

In an order Wednesday, the Arizona Supreme Court rejected a pleading by Gunches to forego any more legal maneuvering and put him to death after he pleaded guilty two decades ago to the 2002 murder of ...

Aaron Gunches filed a motion seeking to expedite his execution and schedule it on Feb. 14. The state supreme court has denied the motion.

The United Nations voiced alarm Wednesday at a recent surge in alleged Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, ...

U.S. lawmakers are poised to introduce a bill prohibiting the recognition of a Georgian Dream government less than two weeks after the party's Russia-friendly billionaire founder was sanctioned for ...

Journalist Cecilia Sala, who was held by Tehran police for almost three weeks for her "journalistic activities," has been released and is headed home.

Alabama has scheduled its fourth execution by nitrogen gas. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a Feb. 6 execution date for ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an order of execution for Marion Bowman Jr., who has been on death row since 2002 ...

Oklahoma has set a date for its first execution in 2025. Wendell Arden Grissom is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on March 20 for a murder he committed in 2005.

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to halt the planned execution of 170 ...