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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock singled out Iran for using the death penalty to suppress members of the opposition at a conference on Tuesday which aimed to outlaw the punishment around the world.

Pennsylvania's dormant death penalty statute has hung around for more than a decade, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and leaving a moral stain on the state. Protracted legal appeals and a moratorium on executions have idled Pennsylvania's Death House. Because of that, many people don't know the state's…

It's an important milestone: Even with GOP pushing "law and order," candidates don't vow to put people to death

Iranian officials have sharpened their threats against anti-regime protesters with the country's hardliner Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Ejei announcing on Monday his support for delivering the death penalty against demonstrators. “The deputy head of the judiciary and the public prosecutor are following up on a daily basis the files of key…

A man facing a potential death penalty in the killing of three people who were shot at an Alabama church dinner is fighting a court-ordered mental evaluation

A bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit rejected Arif's review plea and upheld the death penalty granted to him. Read on for details:

Nikolas Cruz massacred 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting in US history and many of the victims' families hoped he would face the death penalty - but the Parkland school shooter was spared

Singapore had invited Richard Branson to a live TV debate after he criticised the city state’s death penalty as brutal.

WARNING, GRAPHIC DETAILS: A man who murdered two boys by beating them with hammers and cutting their throats has been told he will face the death penalty, after a court heard how he confessed the crime to his own mum