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)
Fifty-seven-year-old Alan Eugene Miller was scheduled to be executed Thursday night by the state of Alabama. On Monday, a federal judge had issued a stay… Weiterlesen
Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most authoritarian countries, has abolished the death penalty. State television reported Monday, citing a new law signed by President… Weiterlesen
A judge in the U.S. state of South Carolina ruled Tuesday that the planned use of a firing squad and electric chair for executions was… Weiterlesen
Gaza’s ruling Islamist Hamas movement announced Sunday that it had executed five Palestinians, including two for “collaboration” with Israel. The executions for collaboration are the… Weiterlesen
On Thursday morning, 50-year-old James Coddington was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma. He was sentenced to death for beating a… Weiterlesen
On Wednesday night, 41-year-old Kosoul Chanthakoummane was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital, in Huntsville, Texas. He was sentenced to death for… Weiterlesen
An Illinois woman sentenced to death on a false confession has been vindicated after 29 years. Marilyn Mulero was exonerated Aug. 9, 2022, when a… Weiterlesen
After a delay of about three hours, 50-year-old Joe Nathan James Jr. was executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Alabama on Thursday… Weiterlesen
A man who killed seven people in a rampage in the capital Tokyo in 2008 has been executed in Japan. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa confirmed… Weiterlesen
The ruling military junta has ensured that, for the first time in decades, death sentences were carried out in Myanmar. Four prisoners were executed for… Weiterlesen