death penalty
Top court upholds death sentence in Delhi gang-rape case
India's top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the…
Verdict due in case of RFI reporter accused of helping Boko Haram
A verdict is due Thursday in the trial by military court of Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalist Ahmed Abba, who is accused of complicity with Boko Haram. Cameroonian…
China tops world executions list, says Amnesty
China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined - many of them among the country’s poorest - even as global death penalty rates declined, a leading human…
Charleston church shooter sentenced to death
A US jury on Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church, to death over the June 2015…
US voters back marijuana and pro-death penalty measures
US voters on Tuesday weighed in on a slew of ballot measures, including several related to marijuana, gun control and the death penalty. Here’s a look at how Americans voted on…
Turkish parliament to consider death penalty for coup plotters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said his government would ask parliament to consider reintroducing the death penalty as a punishment for the plotters behind…
French Connections
Off with their heads! 35 years since France ended the death penalty
This month marks the 35th anniversary of the end of capital punishment in France. Though France is often seen as a leader in human rights, it was actually one of the last…
Iranian lawmakers introduce bill to reduce executions
Close to 150 Iranian lawmakers this week signed a bill to significantly reduce the number of people the Islamic Republic executes on drug trafficking charges, but the reform is…
Sweeping Turkish purge extends to teachers, deans, civil servants
Turkish authorities on Tuesday fired tens of thousands of employees from the education and interiors ministries and shut down media outlets deemed to be supportive of a US-based…
Death penalty in Turkey would ‘spell the end of EU membership bid’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has angered European institutions and sparked fear among NGOs by claiming the death penalty could be restored in Turkey following a failed military…
US seeks death penalty in S. Carolina church shooting
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, the US…
US Supreme Court sides with black death row inmate in racial bias case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man’s 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black…