Four of the world's five top executioners in 2020 were Middle East states, Amnesty International says. Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% of the 483 reported executions worldwide ...

Reporters Michael Tarm, Chicago; Mike Balsamo, Justice Department, Washington; Jim Salter, St. Louis; and Michael Sisak, New York, have broken exclusives on this year’s resumption of federal ...

The Saudi Human Rights Commission (SHRC) documented 27 executions in 2020, which it said represented an 85% drop compared to 2019. It attributed that in part to an unannounced moratorium on ...