A viral post claims that Ex-China Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in ...

The clause in the Indonesian Penal Code opens the opportunity for death row convicts of death penalty to receive a life ...

In 1823, five laws passed, exempting about a hundred crimes from the death [penalty]. Between 1832 and 1837, many capital offenses were swept away. In 1840, there was a failed attempt to abolish ...

The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) urges President Prabowo Subianto to abolish the death penalty in drug cases.

Responding to a question from a German journalist, he stated: "Given China’s national conditions, the country cannot abolish the death penalty, but it will ensure through a system that death ...

The death penalty is also banned in the District of Columbia and in 22 other states, aside from New Jersey. In New York, the ...

The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights The Protocol to the American Convention on Human ...

The new Criminal Code, passed in 2022 and which will take effect next year, can mark a step forward for a complete end to ...

“That needs to change.” There are two bills making their way through the Ohio Legislature that would abolish Ohio’s death penalty, but they would also prohibit injections that cause ...

In the USA, 2021 saw the lowest number of executions (11) since 1988, while Virginia became the 23 rd state - and first southern state - to abolish the death penalty, and the Biden administration ...

Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died.

No, the death penalty is not legal in New Jersey. In fact, New Jersey was the first state to abolish the death penalty through legislation, rather than by judicial decision. The death penalty is ...