On the other hand, 144 countries do not have capital punishment in law or in practice, Amnesty International reports. (This is where the most people have been executed in the United States.) ...

The number of executions is rising globally, but many countries have banned capital punishment.

This country’s insistence on capital punishment poisons international treaties and agreements, complicates diplomacy, and limits America’s ability to call out unspeakable human rights abuses ...

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Opinion; World View; WORLD VIEW: Capital punishment: An upsurge in executions should concern us all. THE POINT: The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty.

Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman says the state cannot end capital punishment. "Under no set of circumstances should the death penalty be abolished in Indiana," Hoffman told 13News.

ROME — More people were put to death last year — 5,628 — than in either of the previous two years, with China alone accounting for 5,000 executions, an anti-death ...

In May 2022, Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema submitted a bill to end capital punishment to parliament. Seven months later, he signed legislation that officially abolished the death penalty.

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer with time. America's death penalty is dying one generation at a time - Los ...

Singapore executed a man Wednesday, July 26, 2023, for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman Friday — the first in 19 years — prompting renewed calls for a halt to capital punishment.

Papua New Guinea abolished the death penalty in January 2022. As a matter of fact, this was the second abolition of the death penalty in the country. Capital punishment was first scrapped in 1974 just ...