The Amnesty International report indicates that 1,518 people were executed in 2024 in 15 countries, according to the cases ...

Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “The death penalty is an abhorrent practice with no place ...

The total number of countries carrying out the death penalty in 2024 stood at just 15 which is the lowest number on record The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest ...

Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015 last year, with the Middle East accounting for more than 90 percent.

The number of people known to have been executed last year was the highest in almost a decade, with Iran, Iraq and Saudi ...

THE world has seen its deadliest year for executions in a decade, with Iran and China crowned the worst globally. Various methods of execution used in countries – including the US – ...

Today, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, 144 countries have abolished it, and four others made progress toward abolition last year. Abolitionists will run into a trap if they ...

until today only a few European countries retain the death penalty.[5] The first recorded execution in the English American colonies was in 1608 when officials executed George Kendall of Virginia ...

However, misinformation is often part of the conversation, as in a recent claim that says, "China recommends the death penalty to Peru and Latin American countries to achieve development." ...

There were 564 people living under a sentence of death in India at the end of 2024, the highest since the turn of the century ...