Twenty-seven former Ohio lawmakers have joined the movement to abolish the death penalty in the state, citing concerns over ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

SC is right. India should have a debate on what can replace hanging when it comes to capital punishment 17 Supreme Court’s lament about govt not willing to modernise the delivery of death sentence ...

Nearly half of Ohio lawmakers who are still alive from the General Assembly that passed the death penalty statute have signed ...

October 10, 2025, is the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty. It is also the date that the State of Indiana intends to execute Roy Lee Ward. Indiana state prison guards walk the perimeter of the ...

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 ...

One week before he was set, for the second year in a row, to be executed by the state of Texas, Robert Roberson's life was spared. This "will they or won't they move forward with the execution" drama ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 15) said that the Centre appeared hesitant to replace hanging with lethal injection ...

Kyrgyzstan’s abolition of the death penalty was the product of a gradual reform shaped by the State’s post-Soviet democratization path. Following its independence in 1991, the State retained the ...

Before debating whether hanging or lethal injection is cruel, India must ask the bigger question: Does death penalty actually deter heinous crimes?

The petition dates back to 2017, but still awaits an outcome. In 2018, the Centre opposed abolishing death by hanging for ...