Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Speedy trial and punishment of the attackers has drawn praise from Chinese citizens and criticism from legal analysts ...

The North-South Dialogues round table on the theme “Prospects and interregional cooperation for the abolition of death penalty” took place on 20 May at 17h00 at the Institute of Political Studies of ...

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

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

One person died and two others were injured in a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano in central ...

Texas has been the top executioner in the U.S. for decades, but the death penalty is declining due to legal and social factors.

With the blessing of the Roosevelt family, CHR in 2018 established the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement to recognize persons and organizations having a positive, ...