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The surge in executions for drug-related offences came despite a global shift towards abolition.

Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, Amnesty International reported Thursday. Such acts include beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence, it said. Before releasing them, state agents often…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Women who get an abortion in South Carolina would be eligible for the death penalty if a proposal at the State House becomes law.

The U.S. attorney in North Dakota says he will no longer seek the death penalty for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., convicted in the kidnapping and killing of a college student nearly two decades ago in a case that led to changes in sex offender registration laws

ISIS supporter Sayfullo Saipov rammed a truck along a busy New York City bike path killing eight people including two children in the October 2017 terror attack

Representative Rob Harris’s bill has so far attracted 21 co-sponsors

Sayfullo Saipov has received life in prison for a 2017 attack that left eight people dead and others severely injured.

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors, meaning the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared

NEW YORK — Islamic State-inspired terrorist Sayfullo Saipov on Monday was given the mercy he didn’t offer the eight victims he mowed down on a Manhattan bike path with a rented truck — being spared the death penalty.