Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

At the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris, Macron described the fight against capital punishment as a fight for human dignity French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday against ...

Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson could still face the potential death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder ...

A Utah judge denied Tyler Robinson's bid to force his former roommate and lover Lance Twiggs to testify at a preliminary ...

A Utah judge is apparently pissed that prosecutors in Tyler Robinson's murder trial blabbed to the press in violation of a ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

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A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death ...

An Australian man accused of murdering a Thai teenager may not be able to avoid the death penalty if found guilty, even if compensation is paid to the alleged victim’s family.

The latest Nancy Guthrie ransom note is a sign her kidnapper is angling to avoid the death penalty if caught, according to a ...

Clark County prosecutors may seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing the mother of his ...