Death Penalty News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, center, speaks with reporters as Stephen Lecce, right, listens

'Send ‘em right to sparky': Ontario leader Doug Ford's 'poor-taste' death penalty joke stirs row
The Times of India Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) leader Doug Ford has come under fire after reportedly joking about bringing back the death penalty during a campaign speech at a London, Ontario, police gala,... (photo: AP / Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Serge Atlaoui, a French national who is on death row after being convicted of drug offences,is escorted by armed police officers upon arrival for his judicial review hearing at the district court in Tangerang, Indonesia Wednesday, April,1, 2015.

Frenchman on death row in Indonesia leaves jail ahead of transfer home
The Times of India JAKARTA: A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left prison on Tuesday ahead of his transfer to France, officials told AFP. Indonesia, which has some of the world's... (photo: AP / Tatan Syuflana)

Joko Widodo reiterated Indonesia's commitment to continue to support the Palestinian struggle to become an independent

The Chris Hedges Report: Arab Regimes & the Betrayal of Palestine
Consortium News By Chris Hedges Farah El-Sharif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people... (photo: Public Domain)

Robert Rosner, chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018.

The world at war: the flashpoints that the west ignores

The Observer The world is becoming a more dangerous place. It’s an often-heard sentiment these days, but is it really true? Historical comparisons are of limited help. Last week’s 80th anniversary of the... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster)

Top Stories

more Headlines »

Maui community of Lahaina burned by wildfire, Hawaii

Maui’s post-wildfire housing crisis offers a warning for Los Angeles

Grist It wasn’t the images of flames ripping through neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena this month that really triggered Jordan Hocker’s anxiety. It was the... (photo: Creative Commons / State Farm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)

One-day strike by Kurds in Iran demands end to death penalty
The Militant A one-day strike shut down businesses and schools all across the Kurdish region of Iran Jan. 22, demanding the revocation of death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and... (photo: Creative Commons / Unknown https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4233718)

A picture of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is seen on the screen during a rally in Uiwang, South Korea

South Korea’s Yoon denies ordering arrest of lawmakers during martial law decree

CNN Seoul, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended on Tuesday a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial where he denied ordering... (photo: AP / Photo/Lee Jin-man)

India Rape - Protestors shout slogans, one carrying a poster that reads "whom do you dare judge, Sanjay Roy is not a sole criminal"

Indian court sentences a police volunteer to life in prison in the rape, killing of trainee doctor
Wtop NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year,... (photo: AP / Photo/Bikas Das)

File - A People's Liberation Army guard stands in front of door during the U.S .Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno meeting with Fan Changlong, Deputy Chaiman of the Central Military Commission at Bayi Building on February 21, 2014 in Beijing, China.

In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists

CPJ China, Israel, and Myanmar emerged as the world’s three worst offenders in another record-setting year for journalists jailed because of their work, the Committee to... (photo: AP / Lintao Zhang, Pool)

Trump's Cabinet pick confirmation hearings set to begin and more top headlines
Fox News 1. Trump&aposs first nominee heads to Capitol Hill. 2. DOJ releases Jack Smith’s report on Trump. 3. David Weiss&apos final report on Hunter Biden. CONFIRMATION... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore)

In this March 1, 2003, file photo, obtained by the Associated Press, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan.

The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind
The Los Angeles Times The Biden administration succeeded Thursday in temporarily blocking Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of being the mastermind behind 9/11, from entering a guilty plea in a... (photo: AP / File)

A supporter of president Felix Tshisekedi campaigns ahead of the presidential elections, in Kinshasa, Congo

Congo bans Al Jazeera over its interview with a key rebel leader and threatens journalists
San Francisco Chronicle DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo on Thursday banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that has seized territory in... (photo: AP / Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks
CNN The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the... (photo: AP / Photo, file)