President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the ...

BANGKOK: The Cabinet rejected a proposal by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking to abolish the death penalty ...

Former President Donald Trump announced a hardline stance on violent crime, pledging to reinstate and expand the death ...

A mass clemency would “bring the United States closer in line with the nearly two-thirds of countries that have fully abolished capital punishment.” They asked the president “to reflect on ...

The recent repatriation of foreign convicts on death row for drug-related cases should serve as the first step for Indonesia ...

A delegation from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said.

By commuting 37 federal death row sentences, he has paved the way for other elected officials to build on his legacy of racial justice, humanity and morality by commuting state death rows and passing ...

Now a lawyer, Hiraoka is a representative organizer of the Citizens’ Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. He shared his thoughts about the death penalty in a recent interview with The Asahi ...

The cabinet on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking to abolish the death ... gradually lead to the end of capital punishment. The four steps included ...