The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has for the second time in less that a year directed Tanzania to abolish the ...

PARIS – Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

The Tennessee Attorney General's Office is asking the state Supreme Court to set execution dates for five people on death row ...

The 29 councils will be able to use money raised through selling assets, such as land and buildings, to cover their day-to-day spending costs. Normally town halls can only use cash from such asset ...

Twenty seven authorities with social services responsibilities allowed to fund services from borrowing or sale of capital receipts ...