President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

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

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...

The National Commission for Human Rights will continue its efforts, with the participation of civil society, in order to deepen the societal debate on the death penalty, and then submit ...

The Ministry of Justice yesterday defended its execution of a death row inmate that evening, while human rights groups condemned the move as politically motivated. The death penalty by firing squad ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years and the first under President Lai Ching-te, upsetting rights groups and ...

We, the undersigned 11 organizations, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the ...

The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in ...

THE nation has carried out its first execution in nearly five years, drawing criticism from rights groups who said the use of capital punishment was a “huge setback” for the island’s human rights.

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years, triggering reaction from both human rights groups and international ...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s administration faces allegations of human rights abuses, including executions and crackdowns on dissent. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs counters that executions, ...

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