even in Hesse. Photo: DPA The western German state of Hesse has voted to finally scrap the death penalty, referendum results have shown, fixing a historical oddity given that the punishment has ...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The Federal State of Hesse and the U.S. Army Europe share a common bond that began Sept. 19, 1945 when General Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed the State of Hesse from his ...

BERLIN – The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as the central state of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. Sunday's election has become an ...

Some 83% of voters in Hesse were keen to update the local law The German state of Hesse has voted to finally scrap the death penalty from its constitution, amending a 69-year-old legal anomaly ...

In two German state elections that are ... Robert Lambrou, the AfD’s parliamentary group leader in Hesse, where the party was projected to win 18.4 percent of the vote, called the party’s performance ...

although a lack of support for Scholz’s SPD-led government in Hesse could be a worrying signal ahead of the country’s next federal election. Bavaria, Germany’s largest state and a ...

The centre-right opposition won both elections — in the central state of Hesse and the southern region of Bavaria — but the day’s other big winner was the far right Alternative for Germany ...

Bavaria is Germany’s second-most populous state, and Hesse is home to Frankfurt, the country’s financial center and one of its biggest metropolitan areas. Some 20 million people, about one-quarter of ...

BERLIN (AP) — The stakes are unusually high for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as the central state of Hesse votes in a state election this weekend. Sunday's election has become an ...

The German state of Hesse has voted to finally scrap the death penalty from its constitution, amending a 69-year-old legal anomaly which allowed it. The western state is the last in Germany to ...