Tag: death penalty

The World Congress is a source of hope against the backdrop of an impending return of the death penalty to the Philippines

Matricia, a Filipina living in Dammam in neighboring Saudi Arabia, said she felt "lucky" to be at Saturday morning's mass

"Society can effectively repress crime without definitively depriving the offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves"

At present, there are six pending measures in Congress that seek to restore capital punishment in the country

Pope Francis said that “the death penalty is morally inadmissible as it destroys the most important gift we have received: life.”

The death sentences are the first known judicial executions in Myanmar since 1988, according to Amnesty International

State-run New Light of Myanmar said "the punishment has been carried out under the prison's procedures," without elaborating

The spate of hangings has prompted growing calls for Singapore to abolish the death penalty

The latest executions come after the hanging of a mentally disabled man in April sparked widespread international outrage

A judge can commute the sentence to life in prison if the offender acted only as a courier and cooperated with authorities