Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Law introduced to meet EU’s GSP+ conditions requiring limitation of death penalty to the "most serious crimes”.

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

Bill would make murder while creating a “great risk of death” to other people eligible for capital punishment.

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state ...

With one prisoner executed this week and another set to be executed this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis will achieve the dubious ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

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