capital punishment

Pope Francis congratulated California governor Gavin Newsom for his refusal to carry out the death penalty and for California’s leadership in fighting climate change, the governor’s office reported.

Iran on Friday executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death last year, the judiciary said, drawing condemnation from rights groups.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed legislation over the weekend legalizing the use of firing squads to carry out execution sentences in his state.

A study published this week by two human rights organizations found that executions in Saudi Arabia rose a prodigious 82 percent between 2015, the year King Salman came to power, and 2022.

Hamas on Sunday executed five Palestinians in Gaza for murder and “collaborating” with Israel, the terror group said in a statement.

Pope Francis has called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty just as his representative at the Academy for Life insists legalized abortion must be respected as settled law.

After 26 years on Alabama’s death row, Joe Nathan James was executed Thursday night despite the objections of the victim’s family.

Iran executed more than 100 people, including minors and women, within a space of three months in 2022, a report by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released Tuesday said.

A court in eastern China’s Ningbo city sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death on Thursday for the intentional homicide of his former girlfriend, a 21-year-old Chinese citizen, in June 2021, the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) reported.

Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) lauded the Supreme Court ruling permitting death row inmate John Ramirez to receive spiritual assistance prior to his execution.

Eighty-one people convicted of a range of crimes were executed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday in the the largest known mass killing carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.

A Pakistani district judge sentenced Zafar Bhatti, Pakistan’s longest-serving blasphemy convict, to death on Monday, the British Asian Christian Association reported on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has withdrawn the death penalty in at least a dozen cases, according to The Houston Chronicle.

UNITED NATIONS — Iran executed over 250 people, including at least four child offenders, in 2020 and so far this year has carried out 230 executions that included nine women and one child who was executed in secret, the U.N. independent investigator on human rights in Iran said Monday.

The Supreme Court of the United States will ultimately decide whether to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.

A poll from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday shows that the majority of Americans favor the death penalty for serious convictions like murder.

Indonesia has sentenced nearly 100 people to death over Zoom and other internet video applications over the past year, according to a report published this week by Amnesty International.

Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is slated to sign historic legislation Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty in the state.

The Iraqi government executed three convicted Islamic terrorists Monday, amidst growing national sentiment that authorities are doing too little to stop jihad in the country.

Freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is receiving backlash from her supporters after urging them to “say the names” of 13 inmates executed during President Donald Trump’s four years in office, including a white supremacist convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in 1996.

The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the execution of an Iranian man Thursday for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old.

Tehran — Iran’s foreign ministry Sunday summoned Germany’s envoy to protest the EU’s condemnation of the execution of an opposition figure, describing it as an “unacceptable interference” in Tehran’s affairs, state media reported.

Lethal injection is no longer a method for capital punishment in Ohio, and lawmakers must opt for a different method before any prison inmates can be sentenced to death in the future, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Tuesday.

The leaders of the United States Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have issued a special Advent appeal for a moratorium on federal executions.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have urged the Trump administration to cease all federal executions, insisting that capital punishment is not necessary to protect society.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the United States Supreme Court to hear the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 27, after a panel of circuit court judges overturned his death sentence.

The former Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, has praised the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast for honoring U.S. Attorney General William Barr, calling him a man with a “moral spine.”

A Mexican border state mayor called for the government to take a hard line against drug lords. He suggested having them shot rather than taking a soft approach like the one that current Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been widely criticized for.

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) has blasted the “scandalous” decision to honor U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

French public support for the reintroduction of the death penalty has surged in 2020, according to a poll that stated 55 per cent of French residents want to see capital punishment make a return. The figures come from the annual Ipsos/Sopra

“If they die, fast trial death penalty for the killer,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Only way to stop this!”

Iran executed a wrestler Saturday it accused of murder, defying international appeals led by U.S. President Donald Trump for the athlete to be spared. Navid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a

Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have called on the government to declare a moratorium on federal executions, citing the Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

U.S. Attorney-General William Barr has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel promising not to seek the death penalty against the so-called “Beatles” terrorists after British judges ruled the UK government could not provide the Americans with evidence against them if a conviction might result in their execution.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has written a letter to authorities in Texas advocating for the release of death row inmate Julius Jones.