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, 69-year-old David Hosier was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital, in the US state of Missouri. He was sentenced… Read more
On Thursday evening, 50-year-old Jamie Ray Mills was executed by lethal injection by the US state of Alabama. Mills was sentenced to death for allegedly… Read more
In 2023, there were more executions worldwide than in 2015. The number of documented executions increased significantly last year. According to Amnesty International, it recorded… Read more
On Tuesday evening, 52-year-old Brian Dorsey was executed with a lethal injection – an overdose of pentobarbital – in the US state of Missouri. He… Read more
On Thursday morning, 41-year-old Michael Dewayne Smith was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma. He was sentenced to death for the… Read more
After a four-hour delay due to final submissions to the United States Supreme Court, 59-year-old Willie James Pye was executed by lethal injection by the… Read more
On Wednesday evening, 50-year-old Ivan Cantu was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville in the US state of Texas. He was sentenced to death for… Read more
On Wednesday morning, 73-year-old Thomas Creech was due to be executed by lethal injection in the US state of Idaho. An hour after the scheduled… Read more
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban carried out a public double execution in a stadium in the southeast of the country on Thursday, with relatives of stabbing victims… Read more
After a delay of around two hours – due to a final pending decision by the Supreme Court of the United States – 58-year-old Kenneth… Read more