THE POINT: The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty. Yet the annual toll is growing – and Donald Trump wants to increase its use. The good news: Zimbabwe has just banned the ...

ROME — More people were put to death last year — 5,628 — than in either of the previous two years, with China alone accounting for 5,000 executions, an anti-death penalty group reported Thursday. The ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China sentenced a man to death on Monday for crimes including the murder and rape of a woman in 1996 which another person was wrongly executed for before being ...

MP calls for ‘legally binding referendum’ as new poll shows more Britons support bringing back capital punishment than oppose ...

The healthcare community has an important role in opposing the death penalty, argues an expert in The BMJ today. Bharat Malkani, reader in law at Cardiff University, says doctors must refuse to ...