
When news broke out two weeks ago of the horrors committed in the brutal rape of two girls in the small towns of ...

The death penalty was written into the colonial penal code in India when the country was under British direct ...

The death penalty needs to have significant social benefits, not attainable with the next most severe form of ...

The Centre on the Death Penalty at National Law University, Delhi conducted an opinion study with 60 former Indian ...

On 16th December 2012, a particularly disturbing case of gangrape and murder in New Delhi (‘the Delhi gangrape ...

On January 26 2017, a federal court in Ohio ruled that its current execution method is unconstitutional. This was ...

In the six years following the Arab Spring, there has been a notable increase in death sentences and executions in ...

Prior to the election of Donald Trump, death penalty abolitionists were quietly confident that capital punishment ...

On 3 February 2016, the State of Georgia executed a 72 year old man - Brandon Astor – by lethal injection. Astor ...

According to recent figures from Amnesty International, at least 1,634 executions took place worldwide last ...

The Human Rights and Democracy Report (2015) recently released by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...

On 1 October 2015, the UN Human Rights Council (‘UNHRC’) in Geneva adopted a resolution on capital punishment ...