Cassy Stubbs, staff attorney for the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project, authored an in-depth rebuttal to last week's AP article, "Studies Say Death Penalty Deters Crime" for The Huffington Post today: ...

Criminal justice and capital punishment experts said data neither supports nor negates the idea that the death penalty or swifter executions deter crime. Daniel Nagin, who chaired the National ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of Limerick, Ireland research. The study, published in the Southern Economic ...

Among the dozens of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day was one calling for a dramatic expansion of the use of the death penalty. The order utilizes falsehoods about ...

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

At a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26, President Donald Trump proposed seeking the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in Washington, D.C., claiming the death penalty is “a very strong preventative ...

Last year saw a “sharp hike” in the number of executions carried out around the world, according to UN Human Rights, despite the overall global trend continuing to move towards universal abolition. In ...

Crime in Washington, D,C., is a crisis. Six months ago, the Washington Examiner looked at some of the issues plaguing the nation’s capital. In the months since, things feel worse than ever, but that ...

Everyone’s talking about capital punishment these days. It’s a reflection of public outrage against a senseless murder. But it sounds too much like the line from the Grade-B Western, “Give him a quick ...

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...