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 ...

Florida continues capital punishment record with execution date for triple murderer - The execution would mark the 12th scheduled in Florida this year ...

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

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

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

Capital punishment violates one of the most fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law—that states must recognize the right to life.

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for ...

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 ...