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Algeria’s Lower House Restores Death Penalty for Forest Arson

Seen by human rights groups as a breach of Algeria’s rights obligations, the move could allow executions if the upper house and president ratify it.

UN Rights Chief Urges Repeal of Israel’s New Oct. 7 Military Tribunal Law

Israel Creates Special Tribunal for Oct. 7 Suspects With Option of Death Penalty

Israel Enacts Death Penalty for Terror Offenses in West Bank Military Courts

Israel Enacts Death Penalty Law for Deadly Terrorism in West Bank Military Courts

Knesset Passes Near-Mandatory Death Penalty for West Bank Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks

Israel Passes Mandatory Death Penalty for West Bank Terror Convictions

Israel Prison Service Plans Execution Facility as Terror Death-Penalty Bill Nears Further Knesset Votes

UN Experts Urge Israel to Withdraw Fast-Tracked Death Penalty Bill

Amnesty Urges Knesset to Drop Death Penalty Bills as Committees Advance Measures

DeSantis Signs Death Warrants, Setting Third Florida Execution for March 3

Indiana Senate Panel Takes Up Firing Squad Bill for Executions

Knesset Panel Weighs Death Penalty Bill as Far-Right MKs Wear Noose Pins

Israeli Knesset Advances Death Penalty Bill Targeting Nationalistic Murders

Knesset Panel Votes to Advance Mandatory Death Penalty Bill for Certain Terror Offenses