The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

The Delaware House of Representatives passed the first leg of a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty in the ...

Death row convicts’ repatriation reignites calls to abolish capital punishment The recent repatriation of foreign convicts on death row for drug-related cases should serve as the first step for ...

A group of Democratic senators introduced the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act in 2021 in a bid to abolish federal capital punishment. That bill died in committee.

More than 70% of countries around the world have abolished capital punishment in law or practice, according to the US-based Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors the use of the punishment.

More than 70% of the world’s countries have abolished capital punishment in law or practice. In California, however, prosecutors continue to grow the state’s death row population each year ...

We have a moral obligation to abolish the death penalty not just in California, but nationwide.

Zimbabwe is likely to abolish capital punishment, following a cabinet decision on 7 February 2024. However, its parliament still has to endorse the move and pass the necessary law enabling the change.

Three bills were filed to abolish capital punishment in the 2023 legislative session, but none progressed past their initial filing.

Zimbabwe’s cabinet agreed on proposed legislation Tuesday which will abolish capital punishment, 19 years after the last state execution took place. The decision came following months of debate in ...

If you think we have abolished capital punishment, think again. We have it in large quantities — with despair doing regular service as the hangman.