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 ...

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: ...

New Hampshire’s death penalty debate is back, as legislators try to reverse the repeal championed by late Rep. Renny Cushing ...

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, ...

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 ...

An MP has reignited the debate over the death penalty in Britain by calling for a “legally binding referendum”, as a new poll shows a majority of the public now support bringing it back. Addressing ...

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 ...

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 ...