From 3 to 6 June the third edition of the workshop "Death is not justice - advocacy and awareness-raising for the abolition ...

Ending capital punishment has become a bipartisan issue in Pennsylvania at a time when more and more people realize the ...

Postmortem results will determine course of investigation into blaze in Casla early on Tuesday, which killed two people ...

(Mainichi/Akira Iida) TOKYO -- Former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia, who led Mongolia's abolition of the death penalty during his presidency, has called for open debate on the death ...

A 76-year-old woman who died in a house fire in Galway has been named as Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs who served 17 years in prison, ...

A 76-year-old woman who died in a house fire in Galway has been named as Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, who served 17 years in prison, ...

Iran has reportedly executed at least 500 people so far this year, averaging three executions per day, reported Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) on Thursday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Iranian ...

The meeting, midwifed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the sidelines of the bank’s annual meetings in Abidjan, Côte ...

Family reunification concerns individuals under the so-called subsidiary protection status. These are refugees who are not ...

For six weeks over the summer of 2005, Dominique Martinez and his family lived in mortal fear after a panel of seven strangers decided he should face the death penalty for killing someone during a ...