State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

On January 31, 2025, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, raised concerns in relation to reports of summary ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit duly condemns, on the grounds of justice and human rights, the recent proposal by a fellow senator to bring in public executions for drug crimes.However, Senator Amat ...

Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued to decrease in size in 2024, reflecting prosecutors’ growing hesitation to ...

Since 2011, February 1 has been marked in Bulgaria as a Day of Gratitude and Homage to the Victims of the Communist ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region's major city, the U.N. said Friday, also expressing concerns over executions it learned were ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

Nelson tells “Banfield” he was merely a lookout for two accomplices during a robbery that spiraled out of control.