The German Coalition Against the Death Penalty e.V. regularly publishes current news about the death penalty in the USA and worldwide.
Further current news can be found e.g. in the English-language pages Death Penalty News or Hands off Cain.
News from the years before 2020, which were published in predecessors of this website, can be found in our News archive! (German language only)
On Tuesday evening, 53-year-old Billy Leon Kearse was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He had been sentenced to death for… Read more
On Tuesday evening, 65-year-old Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He was sentenced to death for stabbing the… Read more
On Thursday morning, 45-year-old Kendrick Simpson was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma. He was sentenced to death for killing two… Read more
On Tuesday evening, 64-year-old Ronald Palmer Heath was executed by lethal injection in the state of Florida. He had been on death row for almost… Read more
On Wednesday evening, 55-year-old Charles Victor Thompson was executed in Huntsville, Texas, by lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital. He was sentenced to death for… Read more
19-year-old Tommy Lee Walker was charged with the rape and murder of a white woman on September 30, 1953—despite numerous witnesses who provided him with… Read more
On Thursday evening, 58-year-old Frank Athen Walls was executed by lethal injection by the US state of Florida. He had murdered a 21-year-old man and… Read more
December 10 is International Human Rights Day because the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. In the USA,… Read more
The “Cities for Life” or “Cities for Life – Cities against the Death Penalty” campaign has been taking place on November 30 for 23 years,… Read more
On Thursday evening, 63-year-old Richard Barry Randolph was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He was sentenced to death for raping… Read more