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, 54-year-old Michael Bernard Bell was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He was sentenced to death for allegedly… Read more
Japan executed a man on Friday who was known as the “Twitter killer” and murdered and dismembered nine people he had met online. It was… Read more
In the USA, one death sentence was carried out on Tuesday and one on Wednesday, one in Florida, where an execution is currently carried out… Read more
On Thursday and Friday, one man was executed by lethal injection in each of the US states of Oklahoma and South Carolina. This brings the… Read more
On Tuesday, one man was executed within an hour of each other in Florida and Alabama – Anthony Wainwright died by lethal injection, Gregory Hunt… Read more
On Thursday morning, 75-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Tennessee. It was his fourth execution date –… Read more
Two men were executed for murder in the USA on Tuesday – one in the state of Indiana, the other in Texas. Indiana Shortly after… Read more
On Thursday evening, 62-year-old Glen Edward Rogers was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Florida. He was sentenced to death in Florida… Read more
On Thursday evening, 62-year-old Jeffrey Hutchinson was executed by lethal injection by the US state of Florida. The death sentence was carried out around two… Read more
In the United States, one death sentence was carried out on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Moises Mendoza was executed in Texas and James Osgood… Read more