The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

The number of executions recorded globally in 2023 was the highest for eight years, as some Middle Eastern states sharply increased their use of the death penalty, Amnesty International says.

At least 853 people were executed in Iran in 2023, according to a report by human rights advocacy group Amnesty International ...

Globally in 2023, the number of people put to death jumped by 30%, making it the deadliest year in nearly a decade, according to a new report released Tuesday by Amnesty International. With the U ...

TJ Riggs of Birmingham, who works with Amnesty International USA ... juries the authority to decide whether those convicted of capital murder receive the death penalty or life in prison without the ...

Although there were more calls for the death penalty to be re-introduced for paramilitary acts of violence during the ...

If found guilty of the offence, the accused could face the death penalty. Amnesty International has urged the government to unconditionally release all the people arrested during the protests.

While the world is focused on other parts of the Middle East, the Iranian people are fighting their own battles against a ...

Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition.

Exiles and activists continue to believe that Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd arrested on September 16, 2022, for allegedly ...

Globally in 2023, the number of people put to death jumped by 30%, making it the deadliest year in nearly a decade, according to a new report released Tuesday by Amnesty International ... Twenty-one ...