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 night in the U.S. state of Texas, 61-year-old Tracy Beatty was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital. He was sentenced… Read more
On Thursday morning, 57-year-old Benjamin Robert Cole was executed by lethal injection by the state of Oklahoma. He was sentenced to death for the murder… Read more
On Wednesday night in Huntsville, Texas, 38-year-old John Henry Ramirez was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital. He was sentenced to death… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more