Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

While the global trend toward abolishing the death penalty continues, the number of executions worldwide rose in 2024.

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office hit, and critics lavished it with praise.

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named Priyanka for killing her three sons, all aged six years and below, at the ...

Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death July 10, pushing this year's number of foreigners executed past 100 — a spike in ...

Late last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state budget total of $117.9 billion and sent out a list of all the items he ...

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Adamu Aliero, senator representing Kebbi central, says vandals of power infrastructure should face capital punishment. Aliero, a former governor of Kebbi state, made the remark on Wednesday during ...

Amnesty International on Monday condemned a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, expressing particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...