State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has voiced deep alarm over reports of summary executions of civilians allegedly carried out by fighters and militias allied with the Sudanese ...

On January 31, 2025, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, raised concerns in relation to reports of summary ...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers responsible for executing prominent religious leader Mohammad ...

A federal judge has refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S. Chief District Judge Emily C.

International rights monitors have documented extensive war crimes by both sides of Sudan's devastating civil war.

Demetrius Jackson is one of three people who were charged with capital murder in the 8-year-old boy's shooting death in 2020.

Demetrius Frazier’s lawyers asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to demand his return to his home state, where he would live ...

Iraq's National Security Agency announced the arrest of Saadoun Sabri Jamil Jumaa al-Qaisi, a former high-ranking official implicated in the 1980 execution of Shiite cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

A federal judge is hearing competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Law enforcement agencies in Alabama executed a search warrant resulting in the seizure of a lot of illegal drugs and the arrest of a man.