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 ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

I cannot stop crying. It’s not just about my family in Tehran living through bombing again, it’s about all the Iranians ...

Several organizations signed a joint statement on Wednesday, calling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to put an end to the use of ...

The legal change is set to spare the life of the tycoon Truong My Lan, who was sentenced to death last year for her role in a ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Starting next month, Vietnam will abolish the death penalty for a number of crimes, including financi ...

Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty for eight categories of criminal offenses: embezzlement, bribery, counterfeiting medicines, espionage, ...

The 15th National Assembly on June 25 adopted the Law on amendments and supplements to certain articles of the Penal Code, in ...

Indonesian police said Wednesday they had arrested three Australians who all face the death penalty for the murder of a ...

There are 144 countries that by practice or law, have abandoned the death penalty. There are 195 countries in the world. ... There are 27 states with the death penalty and 23 without.