There is a lot in the news about Alabama executing a man by using nitrogen gas, instead of a more common method like lethal injection, hanging, gas chamber, firing squad, beheading, or the biblically ...

More criminals may deserve the death penalty than get it, but it is an impractical method of punishment we do not have to use anymore. Alabama is executing a death-row inmate on Thursday with a new ...

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it ...

It is possible — some say, likely — that Virginia will soon abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd state, and the first Southern one, to do so. Historically, Virginia has put more persons to ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

The 38 states with capital punishment know this. Enacting a capital punishment statute is the easy part. The hard part is making capital punishment, as a legal system, work. That is hard and ...

For a long time, when Americans thought about the death penalty, they thought of Texas. Every year for the last several decades, the Lone Star State led the nation in new death sentences and ...

The House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A ...