[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

I have long felt it is important for the judiciary to periodically assess and describe how various laws operate with each other in their actual implementation. The State of Washington adopted new ...

China remained the world’s leading executioner, but the true extent of the use of the death penalty in this country remains unknown as this data remains classified as a state secret. The global figure ...

But because China does not release details about its use of the death penalty, it is impossible to provide reliable numbers. Besides China, Amnesty International recorded 883 executions worldwide ...

Although the global trend is toward abolishing capital punishment, the ratio of Japanese who find the death penalty “unavoidable” remains high, edging up to 80.8 percent in the latest survey.

Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to officially oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said. The Catechism of the Church, a codified doctrine ...

Mr Duterte has once again pushed to reintroduce the death penalty Capital punishment opponents expect a steep battle to prevent President Rodrigo Duterte from reimposing the death penalty ...