Vietnam’s proposal to abolish the death penalty for six offences could reshape sentencing, judicial practice and ...

Among the dozens of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day was one calling for a dramatic expansion of the use of the death penalty. The order utilizes falsehoods about ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of Limerick, Ireland research. According to the research—which closely examined ...

Last year saw a “sharp hike” in the number of executions carried out around the world, according to UN Human Rights, despite the overall global trend continuing to move towards universal abolition. In ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a record 19 executions in 2025 — and has carried out 17 so far — the highest ever in a single year in both the state and the U.S. since the 1970s. The state also ...

These numbers should force us to look beyond individual crimes and ask a more fundamental question: Why has execution become such a powerful instrument of state policy in Iran? The answer has two ...