Anti-death penalty group Reprieve says 80% of minors sentenced to death for crimes in Saudi Arabia still face execution despite the kingdom’s announcement to have scarped death penalty for child offenders.

The US government has executed a mentally-disabled man after the Supreme Court rejected a plea to allow him to recover from coronavirus infection.

President Donald Trump has caused more controversy by issuing a Presidential pardon to members of the private security firm Blackwater.

The issue of human rights once again caused controversy and deep divisions at the United Nations General Assembly this week as the Assembly passed a resolution on the human rights situation in Iran on Wednesday.

The incumbent president appears to have gone on a federal killing spree, executing more prisoners since he's been in power than all other state executions combined, making him responsible for more executions than any other modern president.

A Bahraini child has appealed to the Formula 1 champion to save his father from execution.

The US government executes Brandon Bernard despite nationwide outcry and eleventh-hour appeals for court intervention.

Riyadh has refused to return the bodies of at least 33 of the 37 prisoners, all Shia Muslims, executed en masse in 2019, following trials that Amnesty International said relied on confessions extracted through torture.

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to resume the use of firing squads in federal executions.

A human rights group calls on Saudi authorities to immediately release distinguished cleric Awda, who is facing death penalty.