The most common and most cogent argument against capital punishment is that sooner or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice system.

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 ...

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 ...

IN England around 1800, more than 200 offenses, including forgery, poaching, cutting down somebody else’s tree and associating with gypsies, were punishable by death. Women and children were hanged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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