This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

A look at news events in April 2025: A look at news events in April 2025: ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

A Bulgarian court has refused to extradite a ship owner wanted in connection with Lebanon 's investigation into the 2020 ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African ...

Police are searching for three male suspects in the mass shooting at an unlicensed bar near the South African capital.

The Global Peace Index has released its ranking for 2025, revealing which countries are the most dangerous for their ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he is wrapping up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon.

Italian tennis champion of the 1950s and 1960s Nicola Pietrangeli whose records were only recently broken by Jannik Sinner has died.

In 2020, the state’s Supreme Court ended the practice of having courts review capital sentences. These reviews required an appeals court to compare a death penalty sentence with similar cases to ...