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 ...

Under Biden, officials decided not to seek capital punishment against two D.C. teens charged in a deadly carjacking. The ...

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

Three suspects were arrested after police found over $4,000 worth of stolen merchandise in Irvine. The suspects were ...

For centuries, capital punishment has been instated in a variety of different countries and states within the United States.

The Office of the Ohio Public Defender is finding itself at odds with the state attorney general and some Republican lawmakers as the former argues against adding nitrogen hypoxia as a legal means of ...

As Robinson faces a possible death sentence, voices on campus weigh in on Utah’s capital punishment system and its broader ...

The death penalty remains a divisive issue in Taiwan, with activists calling for it to be abolished. Although a court ruling ...

The US-born pontiff highlighted flaws within the conservative "pro-life" movement, which seeks to ban abortions across the US ...

Pope Leo XIV intervenes in U.S. abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life while supporting the death ...

The healthcare community has an important role in opposing the death penalty, argues an expert in The BMJ today.

The Indiana Parole Board had cited the "brutal nature" of Ward's crimes against 15-year-old Stacy Payne. Ward's attorney, Indiana Deputy Public Defender Joanna Green, said she's "very disppointed" in ...