The Communist Party of China confirmed on Tuesday that it had executed Bai Tianhui, who once held several high-ranking positions at the embattled finance giant Huarong, after several appeals in the Tianjin court system failed.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will seek the death penalty as punishment for murders committed in the nation’s capital.
Public executions are a part of Islam, a leader of the Afghanistan terrorist organization vowed Saturday, days after four men were killed by gunfire as cheering crowds watched on.
South Carolina executed double murderer Brad Sigmon via firing squad Friday, making him the first U.S. inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years.
Two UK pollsters released research on the death penalty, finding strong support for executing terrorists in the wake of the Southport attack.
The jailing of Axel Rudakubana, who rushed into a children’s party and tried to kill everyone inside has triggered a debate on legal reform.
Jesuit Father James Martin asserted Tuesday that President Donald Trump is not “pro-life,” following the latter’s restoration of the death penalty on the federal level.
President Joe Biden has acted 28 days before he leaves office to commute the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
President Joe Biden is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of men on the federal death row list, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Pope Francis has called on Christians to pray specifically for the inmates on death row in the United States, asking that their sentence may be commuted.
Pope Francis congratulated California governor Gavin Newsom for his refusal to carry out the death penalty and for California’s leadership in fighting climate change, the governor’s office reported.
Miami archbishop Thomas Wenski said this weekend that President Joe Biden’s habit of playing up his Catholicism “gives all us bishops heartburn” because of his abortion extremism.
Iran on Friday executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death last year, the judiciary said, drawing condemnation from rights groups.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed legislation over the weekend legalizing the use of firing squads to carry out execution sentences in his state.
A study published this week by two human rights organizations found that executions in Saudi Arabia rose a prodigious 82 percent between 2015, the year King Salman came to power, and 2022.
Progressive Democrat Rep. Cori Bush (MO) faced backlash online after lamenting the recent execution of Amber (previously “Scott”) McLaughlin, a biological man identifying as a transgender woman who was convicted of brutally raping and killing his ex-girlfriend.
Hamas on Sunday executed five Palestinians in Gaza for murder and “collaborating” with Israel, the terror group said in a statement.
Pope Francis has called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty just as his representative at the Academy for Life insists legalized abortion must be respected as settled law.
After 26 years on Alabama’s death row, Joe Nathan James was executed Thursday night despite the objections of the victim’s family.
PARIS – Executions in Iran have more than doubled in the first half of 2022, an NGO said Friday, warning that the surge in hangings was aimed at spreading fear at a time of protests.
Iran executed more than 100 people, including minors and women, within a space of three months in 2022, a report by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Tuesday said.
A court in eastern China’s Ningbo city sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death on Thursday for the intentional homicide of his former girlfriend, a 21-year-old Chinese citizen, in June 2021, the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) reported.
Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.
Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) lauded the Supreme Court ruling permitting death row inmate John Ramirez to receive spiritual assistance prior to his execution.
Eighty-one people convicted of a range of crimes were executed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday in the the largest known mass killing carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.
A Pakistani district judge sentenced Zafar Bhatti, Pakistan’s longest-serving blasphemy convict, to death on Monday, the British Asian Christian Association reported on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has withdrawn the death penalty in at least a dozen cases, according to The Houston Chronicle.
UNITED NATIONS — Iran executed over 250 people, including at least four child offenders, in 2020 and so far this year has carried out 230 executions that included nine women and one child who was executed in secret, the U.N. independent investigator on human rights in Iran said Monday.
The Supreme Court of the United States will ultimately decide whether to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
A poll from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday shows that the majority of Americans favor the death penalty for serious convictions like murder.
Indonesia has sentenced nearly 100 people to death over Zoom and other internet video applications over the past year, according to a report published this week by Amnesty International.
Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is slated to sign historic legislation Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty in the state.
The Iraqi government executed three convicted Islamic terrorists Monday, amidst growing national sentiment that authorities are doing too little to stop jihad in the country.
Freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is receiving backlash from her supporters after urging them to “say the names” of 13 inmates executed during President Donald Trump’s four years in office, including a white supremacist convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in 1996.
The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the execution of an Iranian man Thursday for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old.
Tehran — Iran’s foreign ministry Sunday summoned Germany’s envoy to protest the EU’s condemnation of the execution of an opposition figure, describing it as an “unacceptable interference” in Tehran’s affairs, state media reported.
Lethal injection is no longer a method for capital punishment in Ohio, and lawmakers must opt for a different method before any prison inmates can be sentenced to death in the future, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Tuesday.
The leaders of the United States Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have issued a special Advent appeal for a moratorium on federal executions.
Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have urged the Trump administration to cease all federal executions, insisting that capital punishment is not necessary to protect society.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the United States Supreme Court to hear the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 27, after a panel of circuit court judges overturned his death sentence.
