A State Department spokesperson called Iran's executions "barbaric" as the United Nations and activists group report the ...

Saudi Arabia carried out 356 executions in 2025, the highest number ever recorded in the kingdom within a single year. The sharp rise has been widely linked to the government’s intensified crackdown ...

Iran announced the execution of two political prisoners on March 31, a day after the death penalty was also carried out on ...

The 2025 Capital Crimes report from the Ohio Attorney General is out, and even though a state execution hasn’t been carried ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is again calling for the state to resume executions, saying a years-long pause has stalled ...

In the past year, the Afghan Taliban have flogged nearly 1,200 people and executed six individuals publicly, raising serious ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Lawmakers at the statehouse debated the use of firing squads for state executions. A bill that would have authorized a firing squad to carry out the death penalty in Indiana failed to pass out of the ...