Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 16, will leave prison today after 24 years. A legal challenge and international campaign to overturn her death sentence saved Cooper's life. It had been at the time one of the first international campaigns set up by Hands off Cain.

Somaliland high court has today sentenced Mohamed Ahmed Hirse, 24 years of age, to

Gov. Rick Scott signed bill HB 7083 into law. The measure, dubbed "the Timely Justice Act

A Nigerian man was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court in Malaysia after being

Handicapped Fong Chee Peng, 50, was sentenced to death by hanging by the High Court

There are 420 currently convicts on death row in Uganda’s prisons, the Uganda Prisons Service

A court in the southeastern Belarusian city of Homel handed down the country's third death sentence this year.

Hundreds of civil society, political figures and journalists from five continents gathered in Madrid to push for the universal abolition of the death penalty during the World 5th Congress against the Death Penalty.

The Taiwan Supreme Court upheld a High Court ruling to sentence a woman to death for

Texas and Florida each executed a killer by injection. They were the 14th and 15th inmates executed in the United States this year.

A 28-year-old maintenance worker was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia

Two plenary sessions, eleven panel discussions, workshops and debates: kicks off today in Madrid the 5th