Ghana's parliament voted to abolish the death penalty altogether in July 2023. How do countries around the world carry out the death penalty? Saudi Arabia was the only country to list beheading as ...

Today, over two thirds of the world’s countries have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice. Year after year, we can observe a downward trend in the number of death sentences and executions ...

The organisation believes that China is the world's leading executioner, killing thousands of people every year. But because China does not release details about its use of the death penalty ...

Apostasy carries the mandatory death penalty unless the accused is a recent convert to Muslim. Besides, violent crimes like treason, rape and murder, China gives death penalties for non-violent ...

We’re working to end the use of the death penalty around the world, and won’t stop until every country in the world has abolished it. We've been working to end executions since 1977. Back then only 16 ...

There was a sharp rise in the number of known executions carried out around the world in 2023 ... abolitionist and 144 have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

We’re working to end the use of the death penalty around the world, and won’t stop until every country in the world has abolished it. Last year, filmmaker Will Francome set out across America to ...

July 11 marked the 30th anniversary of the coming into force of a United Nations treaty to abolish the death penalty. During the three decades since the Second Optional Protocol to the ...

How US death penalty capital changed its mind Last rites rights of condemned around the world How many countries still have the death penalty? In 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled that the death ...