Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness of her trial and has called for her release... READ MORE›
Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... READ MORE›
But the agreement makes no mention of Americans who have been held in Iran for years... READ MORE›
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›
In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›
During his time in Syria he witnessed several torture sessions and executions, including the crucifixion of a former Isil commander, he told interrogators... READ MORE›
If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›
In November 2015, Indonesia bowed to international pressure and put a temporary halt on executing death row prisoners, so alternatives were sought by the authorities... READ MORE›
Sexual violence against children, as I have said, is an extraordinary crime, President Joko Widodo told journalists, according to a statement... READ MORE›
Photograph Dieu Nalio Chery AP Saint-Marc is a port city about 60 miles 95km north of Port-au-Prince and is the largest city between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien... READ MORE›
Indonesian police block the street near the entrance of Kerobokan Prison before the transfer of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan... READ MORE›
Mr Dalton is charged with shooting eight people, killing six of them during a five-hour period... READ MORE›
On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE›
It was a bloody mess, said Anita Trammell, the warden of the Oklahoma state prison where the execution took place on 29 April at 6... READ MORE›
They are pursuing a murder conviction and a longer sentence, arguing that Pistorius deliberately killed Steenkamp after an argument... READ MORE›
Investigators say Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, inseminated herself with the help of a male inmate, apparently to escape the death penalty, state media reported... READ MORE›
According to Justice Project Pakistan, a group that opposes capital punishment, regulations for carrying out an execution assume a prisoner can walk up onto a scaffolding... READ MORE›
The latter two have never been used in the U.S. as execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment... READ MORE›
Borch was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, the first of which will be in a young offender's institution and the following eight in jail... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
The Indonesian government has carried out four of the planned executions of 14 people found guilty of drug crimes, Al Jazeera has learned... READ MORE›
At his subsequent trial, he was sentenced to death by beheading and is being held in solitary confinement at Riyadh's Al-Hayir prison awaiting execution... READ MORE›
Anti-drugs agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi confirmed authorities were mulling the plan to build 'a special prison for death row convicts'... READ MORE›
International and Syrian human rights organisations have decried conditions inside Syrian prisons before and during the war... READ MORE›
Harry Roberts the man behind the 1966 police murders... READ MORE›
Inmates also often fear their imprisonment is a burden on their families and loved ones, who have to bear the exorbitant costs of criminal lawyers... READ MORE›
Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE›
Sending him to the United States makes sense, according to analysts, as his escape showed immense shortcomings in the Mexican prison system... READ MORE›
Dublin teenager Ibrahim Halawa, who is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison today, has said fellow inmates are being tortured and crucified ... READ MORE›
Lawyers for Dylann Roof argue in a motion filed Monday that the death penalty and federal death penalty law are unconstitutional... READ MORE›
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