The current debate in the Israeli Knesset regarding the proposed death penalty bill for convicted terrorists is one of the ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the case of capital punishment, we clearly do not aim to rehabilitate, and the goal of removing one from society can be achieved without taking a person’s life. In light of this, we seem to only be ...