From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground ... Joe Biden says he’s changed his mind on the death penalty. Why isn’t he doing more to stop it? The dark ...

As of 2024, the death penalty remains a completely legal form of punishment in 21 U.S. states, including Florida, which according to the Death Penalty Information Center has a current death row ...

The death penalty was once the go-to punishment for a wide range of crimes in most countries of the world. Today, only about 28% of countries still practice capital punishment, but that includes ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

The death chamber in Texas. Nine states carried out executions in 2024. Per-Anders Pettersson/Liaison/Getty Images What To Know . The executions and 26 new death sentences in 2024 are slightly up ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offenses from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at overthrowing the government, sparing the life of a tycoon in a $12-billion ...

Japan and the U.S. are the only members of the G7, an informal grouping of seven of the world's biggest democratic, economical advanced nations, that still has the death penalty.

A Vietnamese court upheld the death penalty Tuesday for a property tycoon in a multibillion-dollar fraud case — but said her life could still be spared if she paid back three quarters of the ...