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European nations warn over Israel’s planned expansion of death penalty

Middle East
Focus

In Japan, support for the death penalty remains high

Asia / Pacific

Court to deliver verdict in ousted South Korean president Yoon's insurrection trial

Asia / Pacific

Malaysian court acquits French man facing possible death penalty on drug charges

Asia / Pacific

US judge bars prosecutors from seeking death penalty against Luigi Mangione

Americas

Iran's protests wane amid crackdown as US backs off intervention threats

Asia / Pacific

Iran - FRANCE 24 exclusive: 'Erfan is just a protester, he can't be imprisoned for this'

Middle East

South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for ex-leader Yoon

Asia / Pacific

Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity

Asia / Pacific

Israel bill to allow death penalty for 'terrorists' passes first vote in parliament

Israeli bill proposing death penalty for ‘terrorists’ clears first parliamentary vote

Middle East

UN accuses Iran of widespread arrests, abuses after 12-day war with Israel

Asia / Pacific

Paris pays homage to late justice minister Robert Badinter as he enters the Panthéon

France

Macron vows to continue fight against death penalty worldwide in homage to abolitionist Badinter

France

Left fatherless by the Holocaust, Robert Badinter waged a lifelong fight for justice

Profile
France

Robert Badinter and the death penalty: How one lawyer changed French justice

France

USA: Trump endorses death penalty return in Washington D.C.

Americas

USA: Trump seeks death penalty in Washington, DC for homicide cases

Americas

Saudi Arabia executes 17 people in three days, approaching new record

Middle East

Frenchman Serge Atlaoui released after years on Indonesia death row

Asia / Pacific

US appeals court scraps alleged 9/11 mastermind’s plea deal

Americas
A propos

Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

Middle East

Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

Middle East

How Iran is using the war with Israel to ramp up repression by arresting ‘spies’

Analysis
Asia / Pacific

🌟The Bright Side: US inmate, Catalan jazz star release new album, 'Live from Death Row'

Americas

China executes four Canadians in recent weeks despite Ottawa's pleas for leniency

Asia / Pacific

Iran executed 975 people in 'horrifying' 2024 escalation

Asia / Pacific

Christian Iranian deported to Panama appeals to Trump for reprieve to avoid 'life in prison'

Frenchman Atlaoui returns to Paris after reprieve from death row in Indonesia

Asia / Pacific

Frenchman held on death row in Indonesia leaves for Paris

Asia / Pacific

Indonesia, France agree to repatriate French death row convict Serge Atlaoui

France

China executes man who drove car into crowd in deadliest attack in a decade

Asia / Pacific

France asks Indonesia to transfer death row prisoner Serge Atlaoui

Asia / Pacific

Trump slams Biden's death penalty commutations

Americas

Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

Americas

Biden commutes sentences for 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates

Americas

Iranian society 'disillusioned, fatigued': Hijab law will 'further marginalise, delegitimize regime'

‘Bali Nine’ drug traffickers return to Australia after nearly 20 years in Indonesian prison

Asia / Pacific

Vietnam court upholds death penalty for tycoon in multibillion-dollar fraud case

Asia / Pacific

Burkina Faso military regime aims to reinstate death penalty, govt source says

Africa

Iran's statements 'for int'l consumption' distract from 'atrocities against women, public at large'

Berlin slams ‘inhumane’ Tehran for executing German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd

Asia / Pacific
Access Asia

FRANCE 24 speaks to sister of Japanese man acquitted after 46 years on death row

Asia / Pacific

Japanese former boxer hails acquittal ‘victory’ after four decades on death row

Asia / Pacific

Japanese court acquits longest-serving death row prisoner

Asia / Pacific

Missouri man executed despite prosecutor's opposition

Americas

Japan acquits longest-serving death row inmate 56 years after murder conviction

Asia / Pacific

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams executed despite prosecutor's objection

Americas

Amnesty calls for int'l criminal investigations into Iranian officials over brutal repression

Two years after Mahsa Amini's death in Iran, protest movement endures harsh persecution

Asia / Pacific

DR Congo military court hands death sentences to 37 over 'coup attempt'

Africa

Foreigners among dozens sentenced to death in DR Congo on attempted coup charges

Africa

Defense secretary revokes 9/11 plotters plea agreement and puts death penalty back on the table

Americas

25 soldiers sentenced to death in DR Congo for 'fleeing the enemy'

Africa

Iran's supreme court overturns rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence

Middle East
A propos

Rocky Myers on death row for 30 years despite intellectual disability, trial irregularities

Americas

Rocky Myers on death row for 30 years despite intellectual disability, trial irregularities

Executions worldwide rose last year to the highest number since 2015: Amnesty International

Middle East

Rap music in Iran: 'Crossing the red line into politics makes you a target'

Crackdown on dissent
Middle East

Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests

Asia / Pacific

Vietnam property tycoon sentenced to death in country's largest-ever fraud case

Asia / Pacific

Vietnam property tycoon sentenced to death in country's largest-ever fraud case

Spike in executions shows Iran’s prisons are ‘killing fields’, says Amnesty International

Middle East

Tunisian court sentences four to death for 2013 assassination of Chokri Belaid

Africa

Iran executed ‘staggering total’ of 834 people last year, say rights groups

Middle East

France pays tribute to Badinter, ex-justice minister who fought to abolish death penalty

France

'One of those dominant figures in French politics': Badinter remembered for humanitarian reforms

Europe

Robert Badinter, French ex-minister who fought to abolish death penalty, dies at 95

France

Australian writer Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence in China

Asia / Pacific

Alabama carries out first nitrogen gas execution in US after Supreme Court green light

Americas

Alabama carries out first nitrogen gas execution in US after Supreme Court green light

Americas

Alabama set to execute inmate with nitrogen gas, a never-before-used method

Americas