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

A group of lawyers who defend people facing capital punishment has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take extraordinary ...

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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., ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

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 ...

Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled House Bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Senior CPI-M leader and former MP Suresh Kurup has revealed that Achuthanandan walked out of the Alappuzha conference ...

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.

The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural ...

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 ...