DW: Now, 2025, the 50th anniversary of independence for PNG, and there's already a lot of emphasis on this. It's going to be a big year for the country.

The world, thankfully, has come a long way from the time when animals as well as humans were put to death for unacceptable ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Trump rolls back Biden's domestic policies on climate and immigration, launching drilling and mining on natural resources.

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

Zimbabwe abolished the death penalty, converting current death sentences to jail terms. The Death Penalty Abolition Act stops courts from issuing death sentences unless during a state emergency.

Parvais Jabbar is the Executive Director of an international legal NGO specialising in death penalty issues. It is a not for profit organisation and is funded by a number of foundations as well as ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa — who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came to power in 2017 — signed the death penalty abolition bill into law ...