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

Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Human rights groups, lawyers, and abolitionists said the death penalty does not make Taiwan safer ...

The death penalty is the safest escape route from accountability as it does not burden the state with the hard work of ...

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

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 ...

A coalition of women and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Front Line Defenders, the Kurdistan Human ...

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

Korea is categorized as a death penalty abolitionist in practice by Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization focused on human rights, as the country has not carried out any executions ...

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

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