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

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

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

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

Kohberger avoided the death penalty by accepting a plea deal and admitting to the murders of four University of Idaho students.

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

Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

Some of the states that have kept the punishment in place hardly use it. New Hampshire, for example, is the only northeastern state that still allows the death penalty, but it hasn’t had an ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent'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 ...