Iran was the primary driver behind an 87% increase in executions around the world last year, according to a new report by ...

Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

Amnesty International’s 2025 report on the global use of the death penalty finds that executions have surged to their highest recorded number in over 40 years, driven largely by the expanded use of ...