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 ...
A federal appeals court upheld a Texas death row inmate's sentence, finding that state courts did not unreasonably allow ...
Gov. Mike DeWine, who’ll turn 80 on Jan. 5, isn’t likely to run for office again, so however and whatever he does about death ...
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson could still face the potential death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder ...
A drug smuggling ring at Toronto's Pearson Airport has turned innocent travelers into unwitting drug mules — and some are ...
Philip Derrow argues that capital punishment is an ineffective policy that conservatives should stop supporting.
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.
As humanitarian and human rights organisations that have worked for years in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, we are appalled by the Israeli Knesset’s decision to approve a bill that ...
One of the most unexpected explorations of the death penalty in recent Indian popular culture comes from Netflix's Mamla ...
Clark County prosecutors may seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing the mother of his ...