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Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler in November denied 12 motions filed by the defense, collectively referred to as the ...

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

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

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Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after a 20-year hiatus, joining the growing list of countries moving away from capital punishment. In this video, we explore which countries have ...

Opponents of capital punishment should have been pleased by Joe Biden's commutation of 37 federal death sentences. This one wasn't.

Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse, faces capital punishment in Yemen for a 2017 murder. Her sentence hasn't received presidential ratification amid Houthi militia control. India monitors the ...