TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated "Slave Play", was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle ...

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...

Catholics and pro-life conservatives formed a coalition of more than 50 organizations seeking to end the death penalty.

A coalition of more than 50 organizations cite declining public support for the death penalty while Ohio lawmakers debate ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lisette Monroe was a 23-year-old new mother in 1988 when she lost her beloved little sister in the ...

Executions in North Carolina could soon resume, after nearly two decades on hold, now that Iryna’s Law is officially in ...

A senior Nigerian lawmaker has sounded the alarm over the alarming rise of kidnapping and insurgency in the country, claiming ...

Nationally, the number of people put to death remains far below the peak in the nineties. The long decline since then, ...

A controversial bill proposing the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists — backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — has ignited intense public and political debate. While Netanyahu initially ...

OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT GRANTING HIM CLEMENCY. KOCO ELISE JONES IS AT THE STATE PENITENTIARY ...

Japan faces steep challenges in abolishing the death penalty despite repeated calls from human rights groups, legal experts and the Catholic Church, as public support for capital punishment remains ...

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s ...