The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty ...

Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

Leading human rights organization Amnesty International has explained why ... has shared six reasons for why capital punishment should be outlawed around the globe. The charity describes the ...

At Amnesty International, we firmly believe that no one – including ... The death penalty (also known as capital punishment) is the premeditated, judicially sanctioned killing of an individual by a ...

The number of executions recorded worldwide jumped to over 1,500 in 2024, says Amnesty International— the most since 2015. In ...

In a chilling new report, Amnesty International has warned that state executions worldwide have hit record highs for the ...

Amnesty International also recorded a rise in ... It is a particularly bloody and violent means of capital punishment only carried out by Saudi Arabia - and can be used for a variety of crimes ...

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency SPA on April 25, 2023, shows handcuffed suspects and bags of amphetamine ...

Amnesty’s report paints a grim picture of how capital punishment is being misused. Iran was responsible for 64 percent of all known executions last year, many of which were linked to protests or ...

Amnesty International has criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists and uses spyware against ...

According to Amnesty International Indonesia’s records ... Amnesty sees this as a half-hearted approach to abolishing capital punishment. “The repatriation of foreign death row inmates is only a ...

While much of the world has left capital punishment behind, the most recent report by Amnesty International shows executions last year reached their highest level globally in almost a decade ...