The pope asked the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square "to pray for the prisoners who are on death row in the United States." "Let us pray that their sentence be commuted, changed", the pope said.

President signs executive orders and promises pardons for Jan 6 ‘hostages’ - President-elect sworn-in at Capitol rotunda as ...

Iranian authorities reportedly executed 901 people last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United ... death penalty with a view to ultimately abolishing it. Some 170 ...

The United Nations ... “The death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity and the fundamental right to life. “All states that still maintain the death penalty should ...

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 ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison without ... Palestinian Americans across the United States, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, celebrated a ...

The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men plead guilty to one of the deadliest attacks on the United States in ... of the death penalty. The attacks by al ...

Other countries, too, have been moving away from the death penalty. In Africa, only seven of the 55 states in the African Union are “actively retentionist”, meaning that they sentence people ...

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 ...

Toms River Mayor Dan Rodrick (R) Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan national who had previously been deported from the United States ... for a reinstatement of the death penalty in New York ...

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.