In 2008, the Supreme Court held that executing a man for raping a child violated the Eighth Amendment. Sixteen years later, Florida and Tennessee passed laws saying it doesn't. One of those statutes ...

A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the victim’s family, who agreed to spare her life. Goli Kouhkan, now 25, has ...

December 3, 2025 — Top UN human rights experts have urgently called on the Iranian authorities to immediately halt the scheduled execution of Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old Baluch woman sentenced to ...