July 2022
Singapore hangs two drug traffickers despite opposition
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other anti-death penalty groups said the executions were a blatant flouting of international human rights norms.
- Jim Gomez
June 2020
China death penalty raises fears for other Australians
Scott Morrison says Australia had raised the case of accused drug smuggler Karm Gillespie multiple times with Chinese officials.
- Andew Tillett
July 2019
US federal government resumes executions
The US Justice Department has scheduled executions for five federal inmates, reviving a policy that had been dormant for nearly 20 years, after Donald Trump called for increasing the use of the death penalty.
- Sarah N. Lynch
April 2019
China sentences second Canadian to death as Huawei dispute flares
For the second time in three months, China condemns a Canadian to death as Beijing ramps up protests over the arrest of Huawei's CFO in Vancouver.
