Death-penalty protests don't usually rise to the level of art, and commercials never do, but abeautiful new ad from Amnesty International comes awfullyclose. Wax figurines of execution devices ...

Amnesty International’s recommendations include extending the moratorium on executions, repealing the death penalty for drug-related offenses, abolishing corporal punishment, ensuring fair trial ...

Amnesty International reported on Sunday that Saudi Arabia has put to death over 198 individuals in 2024 so far, the highest toll in the country in decades. The death penalty has come under increasing ...

The death penalty is dying. A slow death, to be sure, according to Amnesty International, but capital punishment is on its way out worldwide, nonetheless.

Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015.

Amnesty International's report found that 579 people were put to death in 2021, a 20 percent increase, compared with the year before.

Executions in the US rose for the second year in a row According to Amnesty International’s report, 45 people were put to death in the United States in 2018. This is a slight increase from 2017 ...

Amnesty estimates China killed more people than all the other countries put together. The U.S. fell off the list of the top five countries to carry out the death penalty for the first time since 2006.

More people were executed worldwide in 2015 than at any point in the past 25 years, according to a new report by global human-rights group Amnesty International released on Wednesday. At least ...

Governments around the world are using the threat of terrorism – real or perceived – to advance executions, Amnesty International alleges in its annual report on the death penalty. “The dark ...