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 ...

A viral post claims that Ex-China Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in Latin America. But there’s no evidence he ever made such a statement.

As the ninth World Day against the Death Penalty raises the awareness of the inhumanity of the law and calls for an end to capital punishment - we take a look at the five countries that carried out ...

Again, the death penalty was different for nobility ... until today only a few European countries retain the death penalty.[5] The first recorded execution in the English American colonies ...

On Mar. 31, the United Arab Emirates informed the world that it had sentenced to death three people who had taken the life of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi last November, with what the prosecution ...

Governments have weaponised the death penalty under the pretext of improving ... Middle Eastern record In 2024 executions numbered 1,518 in 15 different countries, the highest number since 2015 ...

I found it unreasonable that human lives carried different weights in different ... Is there a global trend for abolishing the death penalty? A: More than 140 countries have either scrapped ...

Dr. O'Sullivan commented on the significance of the study findings, particularly for countries like the United States, where the death penalty still ... studying because different states and ...

Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled ... justice and human rights between the two countries.” The repatriation appears to soften ...

The International Commission Against the Death Penalty identifies nine different paths that countries have taken to end the death penalty. Some have done so because they needed to in order to be ...