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The top court may have to look at the core question in ‘Bachan Singh’ — the constitutional validity of the death penalty

Jim Fitton, 66, has been detained over smuggling allegations.

Singapore authorities late on Wednesday defended a decision to execute a Malaysian drug trafficker, in response to international criticism over their use of the death penalty.

Executions in Iran rose by 25 percent in 2021, a report by two leading NGOs said Thursday, expressing alarm over a surge in the numbers executed for drug offences and also the hanging of at least 17 women. The rate of executions in Iran also accelerated after the June election…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge’s willingness to strike more than 200 jurors from consideration in the Parkland mass shooting trial was an error so significant, according to lawyers for the defendant, that the state should no longer be permitted to seek the death penalty.

Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years for paying a ransom to free someone who has been kidnapped, and made abduction punishable by death in cases where victims die.

Belarus moved on Wednesday to make attempted acts of terrorism punishable by the death penalty after activists tried to sabotage parts of the railway network to make it harder for Russia to deploy forces into Ukraine for its invasion.

Execution comes the morning after mother’s last-ditch effort to save her intellectually disabled son was dismissed.

DALLAS — The fight to save the life of death row inmate Melissa Lucio has renewed the belief in conservative state Rep. Jeff Leach that the Texas capital punishment system needs extensive reforms.

Biden ran on an election campaign that he wanted to abolish the federal death penalty and incentivise states to stop executions

Melissa Lucio was told the news that Wednesday’s execution had been halted in a prison phone call with Republican state Rep Jeff Leach