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A messy mix of politics, punishment, religion and tradition result in the death penalty having a secure future in the USA.

From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.

Defence says there is ‘no defence for this crime’ but Nikolas Cruz’s ‘choices’ all began with the ‘choices’ made by his biological mother Brenda Woodard

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

Marking Youth Day, Morocco's King Mohammed VI has granted his pardon to 588 convicts, revealed a statement by the ministry of justice. A total of 15 inmates benefited from pardon over their remaining prison term. Up to 391 prisoners had their prison terms reduced. One inmate had her prison sentences…

Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the body in a freezer

Malaysia plans to learn from the cannabis policy of neighbouring Thailand in its effort to legalise use of the drug for medical purposes, a health ministry official said on Wednesday, in a country where possession can bring the death penalty now.

Lethal injection one of longest in US history