The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

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Death sentences were used in some Middle East countries to silence human rights defenders, dissidents, protesters, political ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep ...

The White House said Monday it has concluded its review into how a journalist was added to a Signal message group chat, as ...

Houthi rebels said U.S. airstrikes hit Yemen’s capital overnight and into early Monday morning, killing at least three people. Strikes in Sana’a reportedly killed one person, with the Al ...

Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded Yemen overnight into Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the American military acknowledged earlier bombing a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi ...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 would avoid the death penalty under a plea offer announced Tuesday ...

Letters from prisoners also noted their appreciation of Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic anti-death penalty advocate. Clark invites the reader to reflect on the morality of capital punishment ...