Not all opponents of capital punishment speak with one voice. Some, like Justice Harry Blackmun, who supported the death penalty during most of his term on the Court, finally decided he would "no ...

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 ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Ohio are heating up with a bipartisan bill that has drawn the support of former ...

Iryna's Law allows convicted individuals to choose between the electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.

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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 ...

I have one quibble with David Garland's thoughtful commentary on the death penalty ["5 myths about the death penalty http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content ...

There is a lot in the news about Alabama executing a man by using nitrogen gas, instead of a more common method like lethal injection, hanging, gas chamber, firing squad, beheading, or the biblically ...