Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Capital punishment is still a polarizing topic in the United States. However, the practice has been long outlawed in various ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

Attorneys for Giovannie Clapp, a suspect in the killing of Mahogany Jackson, filed a motion requesting a unanimous jury ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

Regarding the death penalty, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Florida governor is advancing his anti-immigrant crusade with a measure that experts consider unconstitutional ...

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...