Ralph Baze has spent more than three decades in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff ...

The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

The Arizona Supreme Court scheduled Richard Djerf's execution for October 17 after he pleaded guilty to a 1993 quadruple ...

OP-ED. As Robert Badinter is inducted into the Panthéon on Thursday, October 9, former prime minister Michel Barnier reflects ...

This was an utter embarrassment that marks the end of any pretense that we still adhere to the mythical “Virginia Way” in our civic discourse.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania is proposing legislation to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House ...

Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

As the state considers the possibility of carrying out another execution next month, a local group against the death penalty ...