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 Wednesday evening, 56-year-old Darryl Barwick was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He had first watched a 24-year-old woman sunbathe… Read more
A man has been executed in Singapore for allegedly setting up a cannabis shipment. Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged, tweeted activist Kirsten Han of the Transformative… Read more
On Wednesday night, 56-year-old Louis Gaskin was executed by lethal injection in the US state. He was sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of… Read more
Malaysian lower house lawmakers voted Monday to abolish the mandatory death penalty, sparing more than 1,300 death row inmates. This is part of a sweeping… Read more
On Tuesday night in Huntsville, Texas, 51-year-old Gary Green was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital. He was sentenced to death for… Read more
On Thursday night, 59-year-old Donald Dillbeck was executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Florida. He was sentenced to death for assaulting and… Read more
Two death sentences were carried out in the United States this week. The first execution had been expected, the second came as a surprise because… Read more
According to figures released Thursday by the Singapore Prison Service (SPS), there were 11 judicial executions in 2022 and none in the previous two years…. Read more
On Wednesday night, 43-year-old Wesley Ruiz was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital, in Huntsville, Texas. He was sentenced to death for… Read more
On Thursday morning, 62-year-old Scott Eizember was executed by lethal injection by the state of Oklahoma. He was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder… Read more