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

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More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., capital punishment has hit a 10-year high. Distinguished Princeton ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss legislation aimed at expanding the use of capital punishment.

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 ...

Their legislation, originally sponsored in the Alabama House in the 2025 regular session, would have given prosecutors ...

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

Florida is an outlier for capital punishment, even in the South. Of the five states to execute people in 2023, Florida leads Alabama, which carried out two death sentences, and is second to Texas ...

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 ...

The numbers: Capital punishment in the United States is on life support, hanging on in the 2 percent of counties that administer more than half of all executions.