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In this Aug. 28, 2020, file photo, a no-trespassing sign is displayed outside the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is throttling up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of CO
Human rights
Executions under Trump administration buck global trend away from death penalty
An old, wooden guillotine shows sharp blade.
Justice
Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning
Iwao Hakamada sit I with a window behind him
Free after five decades on death row, a Japanese man may be forced to return
pope
Vatican changes catechism, says death penalty is inadmissible
Seyyed Alireza Avaei, Iran's minister of justice
Justice
Iran says recent judicial reforms should decrease its number of executions
Jacques Fesch was arrested in Paris on February 25, 1954 after having committed a hold-up at a currency exchange stand. While fleeing the scene, he killed a policeman and wounded three persons.
Belief
Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here’s why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.
A Pakistani executioner and his job
Justice
An interview with an executioner: ‘I don’t feel anything’
Iran's leaders
Conflict
Even with the Iran nuclear deal, the country still has an alarming record on human rights
The death chamber at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas is seen through steel bars from the viewing room.
Justice
Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates
President Barack Obama talks to Cardinal Sean O'Malley during an interfaith memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013.
Belief
Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.
Justice
Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown in a courtroom sketch on the first day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 5, 2015.
Justice
Massachusetts isn’t OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s jurors had to be
Yellow ribbons adorn portraits of South Korean students who died in the mid-April ferry disaster. South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, 68, the captain of the ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people dead o
Justice
South Korea considers the death penalty for the man who shipwrecked a ferry
A jail cell on death row, where prison inmates await execution
Conflict & Justice
Increasing pressure against the death penalty may have led to Oklahoma’s bungled execution
Death row inmate Iwao Hakamada (L), flanked by his sister Hideko, is released from Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo March 27, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
The release of a Japanese man from death row exposes flaws in the system
One of several protests and vigils in Mexico against the execution of Edgar Tamayo.
Conflict & Justice
An execution in Texas has stirred rage in Mexico
Death by Hanging for Men Convicted in Indian Gang Rape-Murder
Protest outside a court in New Delhi September 10, 2013. Four men were found guilty on Tuesday of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi last year (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)
We Can’t Just Rely on Punishing Rapists as Criminals, Says Gender Justice Advocate
Global Politics
VIDEO: Amnesty International report finds increase in executions in 2011
Global Politics
Chef describes last meals for death row
Incarceration in America: Should Juveniles Be Sentenced to Life Without Parole?
Conflict & Justice
Iraqi Translator Leaves the Danger of War Behind to Live in the US
Top of the Hour: Troy Davis Executed in Georgia, Morning Headlines
Conflict & Justice
Illinois on brink of abolishing death penalty
Conflict & Justice
Shortage of lethal injection drug sees prisons scrambling
Conflict & Justice
Last words of the executed: a cultural history of dying words
Conflict & Justice
Deep cuts: in Georgia, not enough money for executions
Global Politics
The unlikely friendship of a death penalty advocate and a condemned killer
Global Politics
Give me money or give me death: States weigh banning death penalty to save costs
Letters from death row: the process of a Texas death penalty
Conflict & Justice
States begin executions after seven-month moratorium
Conflict & Justice
Civilians killed in Colombia crossfire
Global Politics
Overseas take on U.S. Supreme Court rulings
Conflict & Justice
Death row appeal in China
Conflict & Justice
Reaction to Guantanamo charges
Lifestyle & Belief
Pastor Carroll Pickett