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At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying "a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation".

The president’s unconstitutional vision would bring a racist practice back to a city that has banned it for decades

Trump announced the forthcoming legislation hours after saying he wants anyone who kills someone in DC to face the death penalty

Donald Trump has said he will seek the death penalty for murders committed in Washington DC.

It comes part of the US president's wider crackdown on crime. Earlier this week, Trump deployed hundreds of troops to the US capital, drawing widespread criticism.

Local officials abolished executions more than 40 years ago, teeing up yet another political and legal fight

The Republican leader had pledged to ‘restore’ the death penalty upon returning to the White House for a second term.

Prosecutors in a military court in Democratic Republic of Congo have requested the death penalty for former leader Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on charges including treason over alleged support for Rwanda-backed M23 armed group. Kabila's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), called it "a sham trial…

Congo's public prosecutor has asked for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last weekend

It even caused disputes with his fellow students.