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PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro called on the General Assembly to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania.

The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.

Former president granted clemency to drug offenders during his White House term

A jury on Monday will begin considering whether an Islamic extremist should be sentenced to death for killing eight people people on a New York City bike path

The appointment of Lee Anderson as deputy chair is a cynical attempt to woo a powerful section of the party’s right

Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won’t attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific executioners. But it seems to have taken the death penalty to a new level recently, with dozens of people executed in the last few weeks, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights. The UN has denounced what it calls…

A Tory minister was blasted for sitting through 'another round of musical chairs' on BBC Question Time following the controversy over Lee Anderson's appointment to a senior role

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

The outspoken Ashfield MP has just been made deputy Conservative Party chairman