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New law follows a series of late-stage applications filed by prisoners after exhausting the appeal and clemency process.

Gurpreet Singh Johal has expressed his terrifying fears that his brother Jagtar, who is detained by the India authorities, could be subject to the death penalty.

Qatari authorities are ignoring international law by failing to inform embassies when their citizens are arrested, detained or are pending trial for a death sentence.

She believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate Velma Barfield, convicted of murdering seven people, including her own mother. And while there was no…

After a gruesome series of executions gone wrong, Gov. Kay Ivey hits pause. But there's no fixing the death penalty

Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist Israeli lawmaker and who is set to become the minister in charge of police under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for the resumption of “targeted assassinations” against Palestinian factions. “We must exact a price from terror,” he said at the scene of one of two explosions…

While the pause comes as a relief to those opposed to the death penalty, Ivey's full-throated defense of the practice makes it clear that she seeks only a temporary pause in executions, not an end to the policy.

William J. Kunkle Jr. secured the death penalty for serial killer John Wayne Gacy and later taught about the infamous trial and some of its legal peculiarities.

Kuwait criticized what it labeled as interference in its internal affairs, and the Kuwaiti foreign minister called on EU countries to respect his country's laws and sovereignty, rejecting European disapproval regarding the recent implementation of the death penalty against seven convicts. Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah expressed wishes that European…