Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

Recent reporting by the Indiana Capital Chronicle revealed the state spent $900,000 last year to obtain pentobarbital to carry out executions, but officials wouldn’t say how much was purchased ...

Recent reporting by the Indiana Capital Chronicle revealed the state spent $900,000 last year to obtain pentobarbital to carry out executions, but officials wouldn’t say how much was purchased ...

Botswana, Egypt and Somalia are among those actively using capital punishment. In 2024, Egypt carried out executions in complete secrecy, making it difficult to assess the true scope of the practice.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last ...

Despite calls for punishment from the president’s aide, legal experts insist that the corps member has not violated any laws and should not face any form of persecution for her opinions.

Six of the 11 executed were Black. Virginia’s abolition of capital punishment signaled the declining reach of the death penalty in the U.S., according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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Japan has not carried out an execution since July 2022. The September 2024 acquittal of Hakamata Iwao, who spent decades on death row, has sparked fresh debate about capital punishment.

Ending capital punishment is not a false hope Hope could very well be the defining force behind the drive to abolish capital punishment: hope for redemption, hope for personal improvement, hope ...

During the last eight years of government of the Democratic Progressive Party, only two people were executed in Taiwan, a figure that contrasts with the more than 250 deaths recorded in the 1990s.

In addition, every Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 openly opposed capital punishment —including Kamala Harris. “I’ve long been opposed to the death penalty.