South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years ...

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Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

The UNHCR report raised concerns that Japan's use of capital punishment might contravene ... analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. It also called Japan's method ...

Infographic showing the number of people ... 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 ...

Capital punishment is the death penalty. It is illegal in the UK. It was abolished for the crime of murder in 1965. It was then abolished for all crimes in 1998. In 2004 the UK agreed not to ...