Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province and once the declared capital of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) so-called ...

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 ...

A Pepperdine University academic has nominated North Little Rock anti-capital-punishment activist Jeff Hood to receive the ...

Idaho is set to become the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its primary execution method. The prison system has to ...

The accused was sentenced to capital punishment by special National Investigation Agency Lucknow court in another case ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people ...

a practice that prevents international accountability and skews the global understanding of capital punishment trends. About the rest of the confirmed executions, Amnesty said Iran, Saudi Arabia and ...

A district court judge has thrown out a challenge to the Kansas death penalty on procedural grounds, but said there are economic and psychological concerns about capital punishment in Kansas.

Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together accounted for the overwhelming majority. Separately, the United States’ execution of 25 people, again flips a coin for the continent of Africa, which is wrestling ...

While most took place in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ... come as Amnesty warns that some regimes are "weaponising" capital punishment in order to stifle dissent, target minorities or enforce ...