Last week was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 when the true horror of the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people was exposed as the Soviet Red army swept ...

Nobody spares a thought, and rightly so, for the Nazis we put to death, yet many are still uncomfortable with the death ...

Despite the oft-repeated claim that the United States is a champion of the rule of law and a stalwart against violations of human rights and unprovoked military aggression, Congress is already proving ...

They said that no society could achieve justice through executions, and that the death penalty has no place in the pursuit of fairness. Prominent figures such as Atena Daemi, a human rights ...

It came days after former Attorney General Merrick Garland announce that the Justice Department is rescinding its single-drug lethal injection protocol for federal executions after a review raised ...

But the ACLU and others who have tracked executions for years, like Dale Baich, are calling for transparency. Baich is a former federal public defender who has witnessed over 10 of his clients ...

President Trump indicated he intends to resume executions of federal death row prisoners and forcefully pursue new death sentences in future cases, particularly against migrants in the U.S. without ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low. Protesters unload signs and speakers outside of the Texas ...

A Swedish jihadist who is suspected of carrying out one of Islamic State's most infamous executions may finally face justice more than ten years on. Prosecutors have asked for convicted terrorist ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide ...

There have been previous pauses on executions, such as the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but this is the first time this ...

Executions are traditionally carried out by gunshot, though lethal injections have also been introduced in recent years.