More than 30 countries, including Ireland, Britain and Canada, have denounced Iran’s execution of protesters, accusing the Islamic republic of using the death penalty to suppress dissent. In a joint statement backed…
Sister Helen Prejean, the most prominent anti-death penalty campaigner in the United States, has delivered a blistering rebuke of President…
The US Justice Department is moving to widen both when the federal death penalty is pursued and how executions can…
Iran has carried out another execution tied to the nationwide protests in January, deepening fears among rights groups as the…
Human Rights Watch has strongly called on the Burkinabe authorities to carry out a “swift and comprehensive” inquiry into the…
71 people have been documented summarily executed by the Malian army. In Torno, for example, two soldiers had been killed…
