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 ...

"The persecution of Christians around the world is one of the great untold scandals of the 21st Century," says Open Doors CEO.

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

Angola has said it considers the death penalty to be one of the most serious violations of human dignity and will continue to advocate for its abolition worldwide, the Secretary of State for Foreign ...