(Mainichi/Kenta Oka) LONDON (Kyodo) -- Over 1,500 executions were confirmed across 15 countries in 2024, hitting the highest level since ... figures increasing from 2023 to 972, 345 and 63 ...

Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

The number of executions recorded worldwide jumped to over 1,500 in 2024, says Amnesty International— the most since 2015. In ...

In Iraq, the death penalty was implemented 63 times, almost a quadrupling of numbers in comparison to 2023. Amnesty International ... that thousands had been executed there.

The number of assaults on staff in adult prisons in England and Wales per year has reached its highest level in a decade ... up from 9,204 in 2023 and nearly three times the 3,640 in 2014.

The number of executions recorded worldwide jumped to ... have been reprieved as a result of reforms set in motion in 2023. The country removed mandatory capital punishment for crimes including ...

The number of state-ordered executions worldwide surged to the highest level in nearly a decade last year ... and an increase of almost a third on 2023 figures, the report states.

Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were recorded in 2024, up from 9,204 in 2023 and nearly three ... per year has reached its highest level in a decade, new data shows.

LONDON, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) - The number of people known to have been executed last year was the highest in almost a decade ... known executions compared to 2023. They do not include thousands ...

The number of assaults on staff in adult prisons in England and Wales per year has reached its highest level in a decade, new data shows. Some 10,605 assaults on staff in male and female jails were ...