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)
In the United States, two men were executed within just over an hour of each other. In Texas, it was James Broadnax; shortly before that,… Read more
On Tuesday evening, 58-year-old Chadwick Willacy was executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Florida. He had been sentenced to death after being… Read more
On Tuesday evening, 54-year-old Michael King was executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Florida. He had been sentenced to death for kidnapping,… Read more
Two executions were scheduled in the US this week. Cedric Ricks was executed in Texas on Wednesday. Charles Burton, who was scheduled to die by… Read more
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