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

The nation set a 10-year high for capital punishment when Florida executed inmate Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection at ...

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

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

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

In 2016, for the first time, the Democratic Party platform called for the abolition of the death penalty. But Hillary Clinton, the party’s nominee for president, supported capital punishment.

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 ...

Virginia’s decision to abolish capital punishment is a move that experts and death penalty abolition advocates is emblematic not only of the nationwide decline of capital punishment, but also a ...

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 ...

Though the modern Kansas death penalty statute was enacted in 1994, the state’s capital punishment system is the legacy of more than 150 years of racial violence against non-white Kansans, especially ...