President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

The three-judge bench, however, cautioned that such a right provided to a death row convict should not be misused as an ...

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Lynching didn't disappear with America's last public execution in Owensboro, KY — the practice went underground.

The Supreme Court set aside its 2017 order upholding Vasanta Sampat Dupare's death sentence, mandating a fresh hearing.

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism wrote that the death penalty is a “stain upon civilization and our religious ...

The top court also said the exceptional scope of Article 32 cannot be permitted to become a routine pathway for reopening ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

Florida’s ramp-up in executions is happening at the same time public support for the death penalty is at its lowest level in ...

Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

Capital punishment violates one of the most fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law—that states must recognize the right to life.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...