Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, in a move that brings it closer in line to international norms. On Wednesday, Vietnam’s Parliament unanimously ratified ...

Tanzania is among abolitionist countries in practice, meaning that no person sentenced to death by hanging as provided for in ...

An eighth death warrant is still being contested in the courts. The denial of killer Thomas Gudinas’ last-resort appeal marked the court’s 140th consecutive ruling against a death row inmate.

A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade. She was arrested in 2012 when 8.4 pounds of cocaine was discovered stuffed inside the lining ...

In a May memo, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal attorneys to seek the death penalty for “egregious crimes” and to lift a moratorium on federal executions.