Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together accounted ... which is wrestling with a dilemma over capital punishment. Despite the uptick, the report offers a glimmer of hope: the number of countries ...

Based on the known figures, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq accounted for 91 percent of all executions around the world. Drug-related offences accounted for 42 percent of capital punishment cases.

Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 ...

President Donald Trump swore-in his longtime political ally, Judge Jeanine Pirro, as the interim U.S. Attorney for Washington ...

Oil prices rose on Monday after the OPEC+ producer group’s latest output hike, which was lower than some had expected amid ...

Chaired by President Barzani, the KDP Central Committee condemned Baghdad’s constitutional violations, backed Kurdish unity ...

A decision to seek the death penalty, however, would need consent from a cadre of top Justice Department officials and a U.S. attorney general cool to capital punishment in general. Merrick ...

Iraq’s push to diversify beyond oil and gas is opening up opportunities for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Vinson & Elkins, Baker Botts, and longtime Baghdad operator Eversheds Sutherland—still the ...

The Connecticut legislature’s Judiciary Committee has voted to advance a proposal that would penalize companies that manufacture and sell drugs or devices that can be used in capital punishment.

Support for capital punishment has sagged in recent years, but it remains strong in a situation like this, where the offense is so outrageous, the process so open, the defense so robust and guilt ...

Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27. Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that ...

Everyone thinks human life is valuable. Some of those against capital punishment believe that human life is so valuable that even the worst murderers should not be deprived of the value of their ...