Three convicted child sex offenders were executed in China on Wednesday, according to an official statement from the Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court. The sentencing and execution ...

Amnesty warned that the real total is likely significantly higher, as it does not include the “thousands” of executions it ...

China is the country with the highest number of capital punishments, according to Amnesty International, although the actual ...

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...