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)
A court in Lahore (Pakistan) has sentenced a Christian man to death in a three-year-old blasphemy case. The verdict was announced on December 20, 2023…. Read more
The US states of Texas and Florida accounted for more than half of the executions in 2023. According to the latest annual report from the… Read more
A good hour late, 59-year-old Phillip Dean Hancock was executed by lethal injection by the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday morning. He had killed… Read more
The “Cities for Life” or “Cities for Life – Cities against the Death Penalty” campaign has been taking place on November 30 for 21 years,… Read more
On Thursday evening, 49-year-old Casey McWhorter was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Alabama. He was sentenced to death for murdering a… Read more
On Thursday evening in Huntsville, Texas, 53-year-old Brent Brewer was executed with a lethal injection, an overdose of pentobarbital. He was sentenced to death for… Read more
An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced eight Iranian drug traffickers to death after they were found guilty of smuggling more than 300 kilograms of crystal… Read more
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest appellate court, voted 6-5 to halt the execution of 49-year-old William Speer scheduled for Thursday night… Read more
Four hours late because of final pending appeals and petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, 48-year-old Jedidiah Murphy was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night… Read more
On Tuesday night, 54-year-old Michael Duane Zack III was executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Florida. He was sentenced to death for… Read more