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

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

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

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...

Former Executive Secretary and senatorial aspirant Vic Rodriguez will push for the lowering of the amount threshold and death penalty for plunder if elected senator in the May midterm elections.

But a commutation to a life sentence would complicate his efforts to prove these claims, he wrote, by depriving him of the “heightened scrutiny” associated with death penalty cases.

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.

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Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...

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 ...