A joint report released on Thursday by Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death ...

a figure that drops to a quarter if the defendant could afford to pay for a lawyer. Regardless of the moral status of capital punishment, some argue that all ways of executing people cause so much ...

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 ...