If convicted murderers had been put to death, they couldn’t now be released to kill again.

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...

North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

The proposal would link capital punishment repeal with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse have again joined to try to stop the death penalty in the state. Democratic ...

Days before South Carolina’s next execution, the state’s American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the so-called “shield law” that cleared the way ...

The West Bengal government and CBI have both appealed for capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, convicted in the RG Kar rape-murder case. The victim’s parents, however, prefer the trial of other accused ...

The Calcutta High Court has reserved its order on two appeals challenging the sentence of Sanjay Roy, convicted for the rape ...