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

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

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

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

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

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

On Tuesday, the state of Florida is set to execute Michael Bernard Bell for the 1993 murders of two people outside the ...

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

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