[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the latest figures from Amnesty International, in 2022: 55 countries had the death penalty Nine of these countries had the death penalty only for the most serious crimes, such as ...

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.

The 2024 presidential election leaves people opposed to the death penalty in a quandary. The American people have returned to the White House someone who wants to expand the uses of capital ...

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 ...