Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions ...

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

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

New Delhi- Article 32 of the Constitution empowers the court to reopen sentencing in cases of capital punishment on grounds ...

Thirteen other states have effectively abandoned the death penalty in practice, though the law allowing the use of capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon, Pennsylvania, and ...

Sixty percent of death sentences in the state have been reversed since 1972, according to data from Justice 360, a statewide nonprofit working to reform policies and practices in capital ...

Among signs the death penalty may be on life support: • The number of death sentences dropped from a high of 315 in 1996 to 73 last year – half of them coming in just 2% of the nation's ...

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 ...

On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.