Protests against rape sparked again in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country as the eight-year-old rape victim died at Combined ...

Countrywide protests against rape and all other forms of violence against women and children continued for the eighth day ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

Protests continued across the country today (10 March) in response to recent incidents of sexual violence against women and children, sparking widespread outrage. The demonstrations were in reaction ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Shah Nawaz Kumbhar, accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media, was shot dead by the police in an alleged staged ...

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...

Sociologist Jessica Calarco explains why the right keeps winning, and how progressive narratives can turn the tide ...