The U.K.-based human rights group condemned Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the U.S. and Israel have ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Amnesty International is urging for a constitutional amendment to completely abolish the death penalty from Ghana's legal framework. By the end of 2024, close to 200 individuals remained on death ...

Drugs crimes More than 40% of executions in 2024 were drug-related. Carrying out the death penalty for drugs crimes is also widely prevalent in Singapore and China, according to the Amnesty report.

While these figures are the highest they have been since 2015 - when at least 1,634 people were subject to the death penalty - the true overall figure is likely to be higher. Amnesty International ...

Because capital cases are filed infrequently, the D.A.'s office said prosecutors will be able to alert courts of their intention to seek the death penalty early in the trial process "in most cases ...

All six were on death row for drug trafficking. According to Indonesia's immigration ministry, there were 96 foreigners on death row, all on drug charges, as of November this year. It was strange for ...

Amnesty International, which campaigns against the death penalty, urged Mnangagwa to sign the bill into law “without delay” and commute death sentences. Zimbabwe has more than 60 prisoners ...

We continue our conversation with Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O’Brien, who has written to President Joe Biden urging him for a number of policy changes before he leaves ...

A Burkina Faso government source told AFP on Saturday that the military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished in the country in 2018. Amnesty International said in a ...