The novena began Aug. 6 and concludes Aug. 14, the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest executed in Auschwitz ...

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

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

Edward Zakrzewski, a man convicted of killing his family with a machete in 1994, was sentenced to death in Florida on ...

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

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...

The Justice Department will seek to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, on ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century is a truly important book, a groundbreaking work of analysis of economic inequality. It is frequently brilliant, but also flawed, and its policy ...

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 ...