Although Nigeria is a signatory to ICCPR, which provides guidance on the application of the death penalty, it has yet to abolish ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Indiana Republican lawmakers and ...

The Pakistan Senate issued a ruling last week abolishing the death penalty for the public stripping of women. The ruling body ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

Earlier this month, her attorneys said the court was rushing the process that could determine whether or not the government ...

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

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Bill would make murder while creating a “great risk of death” to other people eligible for capital punishment.