On November 10, 2025, right-wing Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed a bill that would use the death penalty to punish ...

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: ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

Today, Capital Punishment Project Staff Attorney Brian Stull authored an op-ed for the Charlotte Observer in response to a recent column in which the writer advocated the death penalty because it's ...

To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...